mac studio constantly beach balls

gladimsaved wrote:

Hi. I just bought a Mac Studio M1 with Monterey installed.

I have two - 8 TB LaCie spinner drives hooked up to it. One is for storage, one is for back up (which i use with SuperDuper).

My issue is - for the simplest tasks, i constantly get the spinning beach ball.

It's acting like it's accessing my back up drive (which i don't want it to do.) That LaCie drive is kinda acting like a mirror. Is there a way that i can stop that? i suspect that this may be the reason that my NEW computer beach balls on me so much.

Any help with this would be appreciated. thank You.

Well, I would start by un-mounting the external drives and test your functionality—this would establish a base line...

There is no SMC or NVRAM on the M1 SoC.

However— if you have an issue— equivalent Shut down, close the lid 30 secs+ , reboot as normal.

If no resolve try SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support to sort anomalies.

Safeboot environment is also a trouble shooting environment, does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, font cache, etc.

You can Login and test.

In Safe mode third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled, it removes malware, etc hampering smooth operation, however a reboot will put it back to normal mode.

This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.

Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS

gladimsaved wrote:

No i have not.

The only thing that i have on there is a program called "Memory Clean 2". I have it open as an icon in the menu bar. i have 64 gigs of RAM on this thing (that's all that i could really afford) and yet it constantly drops to 24 - 28 gigs or so of available RAM. I have Norton Lifelock, but have that feature turned off because my service provider's gateway has a firewall built into their service.

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Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus and compare your results

all known to cause issues on the macOS

Look for the in app uninstaller— if in doubt search the developers website or contact their: Support/Help/FAQ/Known issues/compatibility/Updates/uninstaller

Have you installed and run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus or VPN apps on your Mac?

Uninstall both Memory Clean 2 and Norton. Even though turned off the support files can be running and interfere with system performance. It's not needed at all. Also the memory cleaning apps just interfere with the system memory management. Just watch the memory graph in Activity Monitor for a while to make sure it remains in the green. It it never gets into the yellow you have no memory issues.

Troubleshooting step one would be to disconnect the two external drives and see if the problem persists.

Not familiar with "SuperDuper" but could it be the issue?

I have a Mac Studio with a 5TB external drive connected. Split into half for TimeMachine and half for extra storage. No problems such as you describe.