Mac Studio sluggish and beach balling intermittently in DAWs.

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Mac Studio sluggish and beach balling intermittently in DAWs.

Whenever I have a logic or reaper session open long enough, I get consistently stuttering beachballs and audio dropout every other minute. It goes away temporarily when restarting in safe mode, but comes back after a few hours. It also persists across different user accounts on the computer, as per a troubleshooting I followed from this thread. (M1 Ultra Mac Studio Severely Sluggish - Apple Community)

Would really appreciate any help with this, as I just bought this M1 and need all the power I can get out of it.

Attached is the EtreCheckPro Diagnostic results.

EtreCheckPro Diagnostic

Mac Studio, macOS 14.2

Posted on Jan 15, 2024 2:44 PM

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Grant Bennet-Alder

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Jan 16, 2024 7:35 AM in response to Ryan_O

the most egregious issue is that your boot drive is FULL. You have under 20 GB available.

Major Issues:

Anything that appears on this list needs immediate attention.

Low disk space - This computer is running critically low on free hard drive space.

for reference, MacOS consumes over 9 GB going from cold start to up-and-running.

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Ryan_O Author

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Jan 22, 2024 2:46 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Alright, I deleted a ton of files and made more space on my computer. Logic Runs great now, but Reaper is still a little slow at times. Any further advice?

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