OpenAI Codex SQLite feedback logs write 640 TB per year to local SSD, consuming entire drive's rated endurance in under 12 months; TRACE logs account for 70% of excessive writes.

Codex SQLite feedback logs can write ~640 TB/year and rapidly consume SSD endurance

Issue Codex is continuously writing a large amount of data to the local SQLite feedback log database: ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite-wal ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite-shm On my machine, after about 21 days of uptime, the main SSD has written about 37 TB. Process/file-level checks show Codex SQLite logs are the main continuous writer. That extrapolates to roughly 640 TB/year. On a 1 TB SSD, that is about 640 full-drive writes per year. Some consumer SSDs are rated around 600 TBW, so this ...