WindowServer High CPU usage while connected to external monitor - Big Sur

We are all just users like you.

I don’t have an M1 mac, but I do have a 16” MBP that is used every day attached to a 1080p monitor. I do not see slowdowns associated with it. The amount of CPU used by window server fluctuates but is not like you are experiencing.

It is possible that there is something with M1 macs but it could be something specific to your setup. I expect the latter, as otherwise we’d surely have heard a lot of this here in the forum.

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here.

Use the “additional text” button and paste the report into the text box.

You're on point with the cooling. I'm using a USB Hub taking up both ports on the left side and it's generating quite a lot of heat. It helped me a little to plug the power cord separately from the other side and raise the back of the laptop by a few millimetres using some rubber pads. It still gets laggy during the video calls but not to the point of "utterly unusable" anymore.

I saw it. About ten people, and the thread being closed since last year can hardly be considered an outcry. There are threads in this forum with hundreds of posts. I understand it is a problem, but there is little evidence to let us say "there is clearly a bug", since it seems to affect a small number of users. It could be a bug, but like so many other issues, it could be caused by something else.

I hate it when you guys not only insult our intelligence, but become dismissive in the process. It is a big. Period. There mere fact that you think that this is the only repository of issues and that the numbers reflect the severity of issues/bugs in your software is the very definition of being arrogant.

A quick Google search will yield numerous upon numerous instances of this bug. Take note of this: When numerous publications start posting articles about how to deal with your “non-bugs” (like this issue), you might want to take notice and do something about it instead of living in denial.

Apple used to take pride in not only the quality of software they made, but actually thought about the customer when developing their wares. I long for a return to those days.

You’ve become the very thing you were against in your infamous 1984 Super Bowl Commercial.

You coming here asking for help and dismissing those who are trying to help is not useful.

Nobody said the problem you have is not real. But just because it happens to you and there are “many reports” in google does not mean it happens to everyone. Millions of users use tgeir macs with external displays. You can either provide information and accept the help you supposedly came here for or you can rant. Your choice.

There you go... being all arrogant again. You were NOT being helpful. You were being dismissive in saying that this is not a bug, and as you eloquently pointed out that I have the right to do, I chose to rant about your dismissal. You also think that a bug MUST affect everyone in order to qualify as a bug.

Something to think about: If you are here to help people as you say that you are, don't dismiss them in the same breath. Keep your dismissive comments to yourself.

Hi,

I too have a problem with this and im using a MBA M1.

I also agree that whatever you posted was of no help.

Im pretty sure this is a bug that not EVERYONE knows about. And maybe not EVERYONE think its an issue to them. Regardless whether you define it as a bug or not, it is still an issue to many of us.

Really hope someone has an actual solution to this.

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Not a lot of people seem to be trying to help in this thread.

Sorry, I don't have a solution, but I just made some honest points.

Not what you'd like to hear, but I did not offend anyone, or said anything that is untrue.

Good day.

I don't see anything obviously bad in the report.