Beachballs on M1

[fumi2014]

These are two things I never thought I'd write in the same sentence.

This past two weeks, I've noticed this more and more often. iMovie gets beachball on launch (but not every time).

Firefox hangs with beachball on quit. Even Safari will sometimes beachball for 3-4 seconds opening a new (empty) tab.

What I don't understand is that these are all native Apple Silicon ready.

Am I alone with this problem?

Looking in Activity monitor, I've plenty of resources available so I don't know what causes this.

M1 16GB 512GB

 

[bobcomer]

I think that's a Big Sur problem, as I see it fairly fequently on my Intel Mac Mini, especially with Firefox. I usually have to end up rebooting as I get other hangs after the first...

 

[Apple_Robert]

I haven't experienced any beach activity on my M1.

 

[Quackers]

I saw one beach ball on day one with my new M1 MBA. That was just after setup. Nothing since.
My first M1 MBP (now returned) I don't remember seeing any at all.

 

[deeddawg]

I've seen it every once in a while but nothing out of the ordinary.

@fumi2014 how soon after a reboot does the behavior return for you?

 

[fumi2014]

I've seen it every once in a while but nothing out of the ordinary.

@fumi2014 how soon after a reboot does the behavior return for you?

I haven't rebooted since I installed 11.2.1 (eight days ago).

 

[fumi2014]

@deeddawg Should I be rebooting regularly as a course of maintenance?

 

[deeddawg]

@deeddawg Should I be rebooting regularly as a course of maintenance?

Not necessarily, but it is a pretty simple first course of action if you're seeing an issue such as beachballs that there's not some clear reason for.

 

[fumi2014]

Not necessarily, but it is a pretty simple first course of action if you're seeing an issue such as beachballs that there's not some clear reason for.

When I next reboot, I'll keep an eye on it.

 

[arn]

I think that's a Big Sur problem, as I see it fairly fequently on my Intel Mac Mini, especially with Firefox. I usually have to end up rebooting as I get other hangs after the first...

Beachballs are much more rare on the M1 Macs. Intel Mac I got it all the time. Rarely on M1.

 

[bobcomer]

Beachballs are much more rare on the M1 Macs. Intel Mac I got it all the time. Rarely on M1.

I really don't use my M1 MBA enough to see things like that.

 

[circatee]

These are two things I never thought I'd write in the same sentence.

This past two weeks, I've noticed this more and more often. iMovie gets beachball on launch (but not every time).

Firefox hangs with beachball on quit. Even Safari will sometimes beachball for 3-4 seconds opening a new (empty) tab.

What I don't understand is that these are all native Apple Silicon ready.

Am I alone with this problem?

Looking in Activity monitor, I've plenty of resources available so I don't know what causes this.

M1 16GB 512GB

Rather interesting. Even more so, since I noticed that you have 16GB memory. From time to time, when I open iMovie the beachball will show ever so briefly.

I tend to use Google Chrome, and have two windows open, with 3-4 tabs on each window. Not noticed any beachball with Google Chrome. Rarely ever use Safari.

Model: M1, 8GB, 512GB storage

 

[circatee]

I saw one beach ball on day one with my new M1 MBA. That was just after setup. Nothing since.
My first M1 MBP (now returned) I don't remember seeing any at all.

Curious, what was the reason for the return?

 

[Quackers]

Curious, what was the reason for the return?

It had a hardware fault with the trackpad - NDR006 I think it was.

 

[Mistborn15]

I see them mostly when using Adobe apps including the betas

 

[Steve Adams]

I saw one beach ball on day one with my new M1 MBA. That was just after setup. Nothing since.
My first M1 MBP (now returned) I don't remember seeing any at all.

May I ask why you returned the pro and got the air?

 

[Quackers]

May I ask why you returned the pro and got the air?

You may
I posted the reason above - it had a hardware fault with the trackpad. I think it was fault code NDR006 or maybe it was NRD006

 

[Steve Adams]

You may
I posted the reason above - it had a hardware fault with the trackpad. I think it was fault code NDR006 or maybe it was NRD006

Sorry, missed that. I have been a doubter of the M1, and I really don't like alot of apples business practices to the point they make me sick at times with their stupidity. BUT! I cannot deny the video I watched yesterday of an M1 vs a core i7 encoding a 4k video in Divinci Resolve. The mac FLEW through it, while the i7 was skiddering along at one tenth the speed. It was very impressive. Actaully made me go WOW!

That is the main usage I have for my computers now, video, photo and graphic manipulation. The M1 Pro is my device of choice at this point. Plug in a 4k monitor on my desk and have the macbook while on the road on shoots, etc. I use affinity software, and polarr for my photography, Resolve for my videos and I use wix. That is the one thing I cannot find information on. If wix works on mac M1 or not. I take back everything I said about the M1...It is very very impressive.

I am going to be ordering a 16gb / 1tb Pro as soon as I can.

 

[AAPLGeek]

M1 Air 8GB here.

I see random beachballs that last for a split second sometimes, even when not doing anything intensive. The memory pressure is always in green when it happens.

Another instance when I see beachballs is when I open the battery pane in system preferences first thing after a deep sleep. I can reproduce this one without fail. Probably a bug in 11.2.1.

Another beachball occurrence was right after I launched Safari (no extensions) a few days ago. Wouldn't go away until I force quit the app. Opened it again and same behavior. Had to do a force shutdown but got the same thing again. Eventually, deleting the Safari folder in ~/Library solved it.

 

[james yates]

These are two things I never thought I'd write in the same sentence.

This past two weeks, I've noticed this more and more often. iMovie gets beachball on launch (but not every time).

Firefox hangs with beachball on quit. Even Safari will sometimes beachball for 3-4 seconds opening a new (empty) tab.

What I don't understand is that these are all native Apple Silicon ready.

Am I alone with this problem?

Looking in Activity monitor, I've plenty of resources available so I don't know what causes this.

M1 16GB 512GB

I am seeing beachball when using Photos, it has crashed a couple of times, never used to happen.

 

[xraydoc]

I can make beachballs pop up consistently in the Apple TV app on my MBA. I blame the app, to be honest. Very clunky.

I get hardly any elsewhere.

 

[jerryk]

I can make beachballs pop up consistently in the Apple TV app on my MBA. I blame the app, to be honest. Very clunky.

I get hardly any elsewhere.

Might be app, or the app might be waiting for a resource like data from the Apple TV servers.

 

[spiderman0616]

I can't recall ever getting a beachball or crash yet on my M1 MBA. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened--but if it has, it's been so infrequent that I don't even remember it.

EDIT: I also never get them on my Intel 2019 Pro, which is also on the latest version of Big Sur.

 

[xraydoc]

Might be app, or the app might be waiting for a resource like data from the Apple TV servers.

Of course. It it doesn’t do it very gracefully, though.

 

[Fred Zed]

Once or twice had beachballs. Once it was when hovering mouse pointer over AL Dente and second time was when I was hovering mouse pointer over something else. I returned the MBP on both occasions. ( joke )