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May 7, 2024 · Operations

How to Slow Down Your Disk I/O by 60× on macOS Using dmc

Learn how to use macOS’s built-in dmc utility to artificially throttle disk read/write speeds, configure various HDD/SSD profiles, and verify the impact with fio benchmarks, enabling realistic performance testing on low-speed machines without complex cgroup or Docker setups.