System freezes since High Sierra

I've been running 10.13.2 bèta (17C76a) for a couple of days now, and I haven't had a single freeze yet.

I finally bit the bullet and called Apple Care. We ended up having to do a reinstall of High Sierra.

Same issue on a Macbook Pro late 2011 with Kingston SSD instead of the OEM HDD. Originally i thought it was related to the SSD and APFS, especially since it seemed to occur when Time Machine was "Preparing Backup". However, after stopping automatic backups for a while the issue persisted. No clearly visible culprit in System Monitor. I guess i'll wait for the fix from Apple...

I installed directly High Sierra 10.13.1, running on iMac 21.5" (mid 2011) with an AMD HD6750M and an SSD, so it is definitely not related to NVidia (only).
I am still facing the colored wheel / freeze after some idle time with no other option than to do a hard reboot.
Currently I am running in Safe (boot) mode...

As indicated in other threads, make sure you activated in your system configuration > Security & Privacy > Analysis the option 'Share Mac Analysis' in order to provide Apple with info.
Let's cross fingers that the apple team can soon locate and fix the issue(s).

So, I installed High Sierra 10.13.2 beta 2 and it seems that the problem is gone. Please note that I just used the laptop for a couple of days, so I can't really be sure that the problem is really gone, but the system is now definitely more stable. I still occasionally see some slow down, but now the computer starts to react again after a couple of seconds. Finger crossed they were able to address this issue...

Hm, my system often froze when the screen saver / sleep mode became active.

I don't see how this would be related to the google updater, but never mind.

Keep us updated if it helps. Would be really good to finally have a solution.

The issue is not limited to your Video Card. I have a late 2013 iMac with a different card, and the same issue as you.

I wonder if there is a way to get an alert when CPU use is too high, or even better, for the system to kill selected processes also.

You'd think Apple would have a graceful way of handling "system overload".

Ive been getting this several times a day - I think I can actually reproduce it by playing a youtube video (normal size).

The sound will continue, and the cursor moves, then the computer either restarts or I have to hard restart.

(I think something quite similar used to happen when I had a screen saver enabled)

I've been sending crash logs - no idea if it will help.

Tried caffeinate which seemed to work for a few days, until it didn't...

Just to add to what everyone else is experiencing: I am experiencing the same freezes on a MacPro with 8 cores, 64GB of memory, four 27" monitors and High Sierra 10.13.2 installed. Incredibly annoying and really unacceptable on a very expensive machine!!! I tried to switch the monitor sleep function off (System Preferences->Energy Saver->Turn display off after: never) and switch the screen savers on instead (System Preferences->Desktop & Screen Saver). I used the Flurry screen saver and ticked "Show with clock". I normally work until around 10:30pm European time when the US markets close and I can see the system freezes around 4am (so about 5-6 hours later) as the clock has stopped but is still displayed on the monitors. I don't claim to be an expert, but if the system can "work itself" into a freeze then perhaps it is a memory leak from an app (although must be a pretty serious leak with 64GB of RAM) or a periodic service that is catastrophically malfunctioning. Whatever it is, Apple really should get their act together and fix this.

This is clearly a widespread problem.

Next step will a to take it to Macworld , macrumors , etc. that puts the problem in front of many more eyes and and then will get attention.

I think Inniss time to increase the volume on this

Update 17 Jan 2018 08:42am CET: For reasons unknown, I have not had a freeze in two days. Instead of the usual frozen clock on the screen in the morning, the screen saver is running and I can log in as usual. Since my original posting on January 11, I have only updated the following: macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Supplemental Update (I guess this was the CPU security fix), HP Printer Software version 5.1 and Telegram version 3.7.3. I also deleted and re-added my HP printer under System Preferences->Printers and Scanners and unplugged an external USB diskstation. I doubt any of these things would have fixed the problem, but for whatever reason, no freezes the last two days. I'll try to switch the Energy Saver back on so the displays are turned off after 20 minutes and switch the screen saver off.

I have had freezing issues with vm's running under Parallels and VMFusion. I have had freezes while scrolling a webpage or when the screensaver was running and now I am experiencing logouts.

I just reset a machine to Sierra and if it continues to be stable all machines will be downgraded.

This is the worst performance for me since going 100% Apple more than 10 years ago.

No Apple acknowledgement no indication they are working on a fix.

I have a 2014 MBP, having the same issues still. Previous to update even, upon attaching my LG monitor the whole system would freeze leaving only an option to Hard reboot. If i attach the monitor first then turn on the laptop it works fine, it just cant handle plugging in 'live' anymore.I upgraded to HS today hoping it would resolve the issue but alas its the same. waiting for a patch or a resolve.

Recently I have began to think that Ive experienced more issues with my iPhones and Apple products than ever before.. always an ambassador for Apple products as they 'just work' they are more recently 'not working'. Seems that the Software teams at Apple are not as 'tight' on their update releases as they once were...

Currently running ok in safe mode + time machine deactivated.

I solved my problem with this. I went back to 10.7 and will NEVER EVER update the Mac OS again. Just glad I kept my old 10.7 disk.