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Re: Seuoa Exhaustion

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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.

    Cheers - Jaimie
-- 
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
                                               -- Charles Darwin

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Seuoa Exhaustion John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-03-27 08:50 +0000
  Re: Seuoa Exhaustion Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-03-27 09:02 +0000
    Re: Seuoa Exhaustion John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-03-27 09:08 +0000
      Re: Seuoa Exhaustion Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2025-03-27 19:25 +0000
        Re: Seuoa Exhaustion Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-03-28 06:57 +0000
  Re: Sequoia Exhaustion David <David.is@home.today> - 2025-03-27 10:28 +0000

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