Okay, I'm starting to get a big, recurrent problem. When I'm streaming through Apple Music, downloading, and using Firefox... (with only ten tabs) I get a massive slowdown to the point where I have to shut down. In checking the Activity Monitor this is what I get. I did some searching but couldn't find any successful fixes... Does anyone have a clue what I should do?
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System slows to a crawl when streaming and dl'ing
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Did you just hit quit, or force quit? If the latter did the PID change and it was still not responding?
Killing loginwindow triggers a kind of soft logoff. It’s probably wiser to log off and back on the normal way, from the menu or with the shortcut
“Shift-Command-Q: Log out of your macOS user account. You will be asked to confirm. To log out immediately without confirming, press Option-Shift-Command-Q.”
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
“Shift-Command-Q: Log out of your macOS user account. You will be asked to confirm. To log out immediately without confirming, press Option-Shift-Command-Q.”
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
Every program slows to a crawl. The weirdest part is that all sounds stop (e.g., no volume, can't change it, no streaming at all), and new programs cannot open. I'm getting the spinning beach ball. It's not the hardware as it's a brand new Mac Studio base model with 32gb and 2tb. What's more complicated is that programs that are already open, mostly function correctly but without any sound or video. In other words, I can browse on Firefox and Safari but youtube or streaming will just buffer without any sound.
I did try killing the login program in the activity monitor but it wouldn't stop. I've erased everything and started over again but I have a feeling this error is going to come back.
Again did you just quit it or force quit it? [Post #5]. Did the Pid change?
If you bring up Force Quit from the Apple Menu try force quitting the applications (1) that aren't responding [in red] and (2) the rest one by one to see if you can identify the app that is hanging things.
Yes - 'loginwindow' is something that can be considered as host process of your user session. Killing it destroys the user session and it is more like "hard logoff".
I know that is an old thread, but it might lead to possible culprit anyway.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/336142/why-does-loginwindow-keep-freezing-in-mojave
I tried both Quit and Force Quit. Didn't work. I just reinstalled everything and hopefully, this will not happen again. I'm afraid it will, then I've got another issue to figure outl
I hope the reinstall fixes it for you! That’s always my attempted solution to these problems; trying to solve them in other ways is too time-consuming and frustrating.
Did the process PID (in Activity Manager) change? If it didn't then the process wasn't killed.