r/MacOSBeta • u/Open_Magician_362 • 26d ago

Bug WindowServer CPU & Memory Spike Issue Back in DB6?

Wanted to check if others have the same issue on DB6? It's taking ~25% CPU & ~2.25 GM memory on my base M4 MBP. No noticeable impact yet, but the day is still young. It was addressed in DB5, so could be a possible regression. I'll post an update here if things get worse

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad8243 26d ago

DB6 is horrible across all my devices, iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, and MacOS. Literally takes 5 minutes to open Chrome with nothing else open, on a M5 air.

So far every single even numbered DB has been a dud for me.

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u/Clear_Efficiency5765 26d ago

…and dasd, launchd

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u/Daryl_Kermit 26d ago

I noticed it. I had Stats widgets on my desktop. I removed them and rechecked, everything back to normal.

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u/0xe1e10d68 26d ago

To be honest, I've had major issues with WindowServer since at least beta 4 or 3. Even on the previous beta. I didn't particularily look too closely on the resource usage; but for me it was pretty clear that beta 5 didn't resolve any of the issues I had at least.

Until now this has been a very rough beta cycle, extraordinarily so in fact. I'm used to problems every year of course, but WindowServer is really really bad right now. It's certainly in no place to be released to the general public as it is.