marceldarvas

Backblaze bzserv Memory Leak — Runbook (macOS)

A workaround and diagnosis guide for a memory leak in Backblaze Personal Backup's bzserv process that quietly fills macOS swap until the system runs out of application memory.

Symptoms

• Activity Monitor shows Backblaze using tens of GB of memory.
• sysctl vm.swapusage reports swap climbing into the 20–60 GB range over a few

joshdholtz

import SwiftUI
import RevenueCat

struct Constants {
    static let apiKey = "<your_api_key>" // Will look like: appl_bunchofotherstuffhere
    static let entitlementName = "<your_entitlement_name>" // I use something like "pro"
}

@main
struct ATinySampleApp: App {

chockenberry

#!/bin/sh

defaults read com.apple.finder CreateDesktop > /dev/null 2>&1
enabled=$?

if [ "$1" = "off" ]; then
	if [ $enabled -eq 1 ]; then
		defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false
		osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to quit'
		open -a Finder