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Last Week on My Mac: There’s still a hole in my bucket, Monterey’s memory leak

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We can expect Universal Control in macOS 12.3, but when will Apple get round to fixing the severe memory leak in the Finder’s Find feature?

January 30, 2022 Macs, Technology

Looking ahead to macOS 12.3: Python, DropBox and OneDrive changes

If you use any of these, Apple’s next update to Monterey 12.3 will bring changes. Start preparing now.

January 29, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to work around Monterey’s Finder memory leak

If you’re not careful, you can end up watching the Finder steadily eating your Mac’s memory until it grinds to a halt. The bug explained with solutions.

January 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

What has changed in Monterey 12.2?

macOS Monterey 12.2 is of modest size, relative to updates in recent years, at 2-2.8 GB, depending on […]

January 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Monterey 12.2, Big Sur 11.6.3 and Catalina SU updates

Apple has just released updates to Monterey and Big Sur, bringing them to 12.2 and 11.6.3 respectively, and […]

January 26, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Scheduling of Threads on M1 Series Chips: second draft

From the anatomy of the CPU cores, to the queues of threads in GCD, and assignment to a core cluster, this details how threads are managed for the M1 series chips.

January 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

How you can’t promote threads on an M1

Why can’t the taskpolicy command tool be used to promote software to be able to run on the M1 chip’s Performance cores? Does it change QoS?

January 24, 2022 Macs, Technology

Why Time Machine backups can be interminably slow

Is it overhead from sandboxing, the file system, the throttling of I/O, or the limitations of the Efficiency cores? Is there anything a user can do?

January 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Memory Lane: Grokking memory problems in Activity Monitor

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Activity Monitor’s Memory view is the perfect place to watch for memory problems, such as a leak. Demonstrated here in macOS 12.0.1 and 12.1.

January 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

What does Safe Mode do to an M1 Mac?

According to macOS Help, safe mode stops some software from loading, and performs a check of the startup disk. Here’s a more detailed and accurate account of what it does.

January 17, 2022 Macs, Technology

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