Mac M1 Pro Too slow!

According to the report that you had submitted, you have an antivirus app installed.

Get rid of any antivirus apps A.S.A.P. because they are the ones that typically cause panics and other serious issues.

You will find that without that extra, your Mac will run smoother than it has ever been.

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You are running in Safe mode, where no third-paty add-ons are loaded automatically.

Your drive is very fast at over 300 M bytes/sec read and write

But in the short time you Mac has been running, it became so short of RASM memory that it swapped some stuff out to the boot drive:

Virtual Memory Information:

Physical RAM: 16 GB

Free RAM: 60 MB

Used RAM: 12.28 GB

Cached files: 3.66 GB

Available RAM: 3.72 GB

Swap Used: 12 MB

I think you have too much Stuff on your Mac, including third-party file-syncers that are not smart enough to stop scanning your files for changes, such as OneDrive. 'bird' present also indicate you are still trying to sync up to iCloud, and have not yet caught up on that, either.

'Bird' process you refer to is the process that does cloud sync.

You either need to re-think cloud sync-ing at all, how much and how often your sync-ed data changes, or find a different method for storing these files, or let it run all the way through until everything is up-to-date.

if you are trying to use iCloud and similar services in place of additional local drives (either as storage drives or backup drives) that is not a good trade-off. The cloud is not fast enough or secure enough. You need to buy some more drives.

Restart your Mac and then post a new Etrecheck report.

Take a look at this article as well:

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