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I purchased a new M1 Mac (8gb ram) in Febuary, and since then have had a problem with lagging due to high memory usage. Almost always half or more 4+gb is allocated to WindowServer.

The problem is exacerbated any time I plug in OR unplug my external monitor.

I've read this thread, which indicated that this was a bug back in OS X 10.x

Should I be worried about this specific computer being a lemon, or is this an OS X bug? It's quite annoying because it makes my computer essentially unusable for 3+ minutes every time I switch what display I am using.

Activity Monitor

zephyrus
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  • Is chrome your browser using all the non window server memory? You’ve got some big leaks for sure. – bmike May 18 '21 at 01:06
  • All the browser memory items shown with the exception of Google Chrome Helper (GPU) and one of the youtube instances are safari. – zephyrus May 18 '21 at 01:21
  • As you memory pressure is now green the current state is probably OK and might just be caching - what matters would be when the memory pressure is red what does activity monitor show – mmmmmm May 18 '21 at 09:18
  • In the screenshot it is all green, but quite frequently goes completely into the yellow and red. Again, particularly when I plug in or unplug an external monitor and stays this way for many minutes. – zephyrus May 18 '21 at 16:17
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    I have the exact same problem. – gagarine Nov 04 '21 at 21:32
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    I have still not found a solution to this problem, unfortunately. Intend to take in to apple store. – zephyrus Nov 08 '21 at 19:31
  • It's an insult to customers if Apple is selling computers with their software draining half the memory!!! Either sell higher memory computers or fix the bug! – AlikElzin-kilaka Sep 28 '22 at 02:42

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