MacOS recurrently freezes for ~10 seconds
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
MacOS 12.0.1 (21A559)
My mac recurrently freezes. Once in a while, without any apparent cause, everything (mouse cursor, clock, trackpad force feedback) gets stuck for about 10 seconds, then it resumes as if nothing had happened.
I have noticed the following:
- a lot of the times, this happens (but is not limited to) right after unlocking my screen (even if the laptop wasn't sleeping)
- sometimes the patterns are quite predictable. For example, one time I've got this pattern (basically it was freezing every 10 minutes for ~10 seconds):
- froze at 8:33:19, unfroze at 8:33:28,
- froze at 8:43:29, unfroze at 8:43:38,
- froze at 8:53:38, unfroze at 8:53:46,
- froze at 9:03:48, unfroze at 9:03:57
- it happens regardless of whether I'm using an external monitor
- nothing shows up in the system logs
how do I know if this is hardware or software?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.0