I have become increasingly aware of a phenomenon I've never before encountered
on a Mac. My M4/Sequoia gets exhausted.
This mostly manifests itself in two ways. Firstly. the text cursor disappears.
This makes editing difficult to say the least. Secondly, and rather more irritatingly, TouchID stops working and I am continually having to renter my password.
A restart fixeds it - it comes back refreshed and raring to go. Maybe logging out and in would help just as well, but the M4 is back from a restart in a minute or so so it hardly seems worth it.
I've no idea whether this arises in MacOS (in which I would expect others to have observed it) or in one of the applications I mostly use. These are nearly
all Apple except for GraphicConverter, Inkscape and Reunion. A memory leak somewhere, perhaps? It my, of course, be peculiar to the M4 series of iMac, which are only about six months old.
Old John.
On 27 Mar 2025 at 08:50:37 GMT, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I have become increasingly aware of a phenomenon I've never before encountered
on a Mac. My M4/Sequoia gets exhausted.
This mostly manifests itself in two ways. Firstly. the text cursor disappears.
This makes editing difficult to say the least. Secondly, and rather more
irritatingly, TouchID stops working and I am continually having to renter my >> password.
A restart fixeds it - it comes back refreshed and raring to go. Maybe logging
out and in would help just as well, but the M4 is back from a restart in a >> minute or so so it hardly seems worth it.
I've no idea whether this arises in MacOS (in which I would expect others to >> have observed it) or in one of the applications I mostly use. These are nearly
all Apple except for GraphicConverter, Inkscape and Reunion. A memory leak >> somewhere, perhaps? It my, of course, be peculiar to the M4 series of iMac, >> which are only about six months old.
Old John.
Does Activity Monitor show anything interesting when this problem is occurring?
On 27 Mar 2025 at 09:02:53 GMT, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
wrote:
On 27 Mar 2025 at 08:50:37 GMT, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >>
I have become increasingly aware of a phenomenon I've never before encountered
on a Mac. My M4/Sequoia gets exhausted.
This mostly manifests itself in two ways. Firstly. the text cursor disappears.
This makes editing difficult to say the least. Secondly, and rather more >>> irritatingly, TouchID stops working and I am continually having to renter my
password.
A restart fixeds it - it comes back refreshed and raring to go. Maybe logging
out and in would help just as well, but the M4 is back from a restart in a >>> minute or so so it hardly seems worth it.
I've no idea whether this arises in MacOS (in which I would expect others to
have observed it) or in one of the applications I mostly use. These are nearly
all Apple except for GraphicConverter, Inkscape and Reunion. A memory leak >>> somewhere, perhaps? It my, of course, be peculiar to the M4 series of iMac, >>> which are only about six months old.
Old John.
Does Activity Monitor show anything interesting when this problem is
occurring?
Good point. I'll check, at a more opportune moment.
Old John.
On 27 Mar 2025 at 09:08:05 GMT, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
On 27 Mar 2025 at 09:02:53 GMT, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
wrote:
On 27 Mar 2025 at 08:50:37 GMT, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I have become increasingly aware of a phenomenon I've never before encountered
on a Mac. My M4/Sequoia gets exhausted.
This mostly manifests itself in two ways. Firstly. the text cursor disappears.
This makes editing difficult to say the least. Secondly, and rather more >>>> irritatingly, TouchID stops working and I am continually having to renter my
password.
A restart fixeds it - it comes back refreshed and raring to go. Maybe logging
out and in would help just as well, but the M4 is back from a restart in a >>>> minute or so so it hardly seems worth it.
I've no idea whether this arises in MacOS (in which I would expect others to
have observed it) or in one of the applications I mostly use. These are nearly
all Apple except for GraphicConverter, Inkscape and Reunion. A memory leak >>>> somewhere, perhaps? It my, of course, be peculiar to the M4 series of iMac,
which are only about six months old.
Old John.
Does Activity Monitor show anything interesting when this problem is
occurring?
Good point. I'll check, at a more opportune moment.
Old John.
Haven't seen any of this sort of thing here. 15.4 is likely to be out
very soon (current build says it's a release candidate), maybe that'll
settle it down for you.
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