Why does my M4 Mac mini lock in with AI apps and renders, even when it is not hot?
I recently brought a Mac mini 5 months ago and I love this thing. I started doing some productivity stuff like rendering my Blender models for showcasing and it takes me 8 minutes to usually render. I also run local AI models such as AI video upscaling which usually takes like 30 minutes to an hour depending on the duration itself and also running high quality AI music separation models which usually takes 5 minutes to do vocals and instrumentals.
I love my daily machine, but as I started using it a lot, I realize that my renders and AI models began to lock in for some reason.
My Blender models take 30 - 40 minutes to render, and now my AI stuff takes hours to do? I don’t know why it does that but I figure it could be a RAM lock in thing since Blender usually takes a gig of RAM or more to take 8 minutes or less to render my models, instead it locks in at 500MB of RAM. My AI models does the same as the RAM locks in at 5 - 8 GB of RAM, usually it takes more than that but I don’t check my activity monitor for it. I also figure it could be thermal throttling since all that process does make my Mac mini hot and like most computers they lock in but it now even if my Mac mini isn’t hot it’ll still lock in.
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about this because I couldn’t find a solution for it. Maybe it has a mind on its own. Does anyone know what’s happening?
Also forgot to mention that this does not always happen. It usually temporary does it when it knows it does. After a couple of weeks I begin using my AI programs again and it started operating as normal and I was monitoring it to see what’s happening. I didn’t see any suspicious and then a few minutes later it began doing the same thing like it usually does.
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