Getting a bit of an odd instability behavior. Machine "often" locks up, logs out, and I am able to log back in again immediately and get all my apps started etc. The strange part is neither RAM nor CPU is showing any signs of strain (monitoring with iStat menus) but GPU constantly shows high load. My specs:
- i5-12600KF
- 64GB 3200 CL16 RAM
- Sapphire Nitro RX 6600 XT
tl;dr - It appears that any video-intensive normal OS process can randomly result in full system freeze and OSX logout. System becomes unresponsive after some random click (an OSX notification, interacting with an HTML Canvas animation, using a WISYWIG like this forum's editor). I have quite a few apps running (a dozen or so) and 4+ browsers at any given time (Safari, Chrome, Chromium, Waterfox) which I use for different purposes. Recently switched from Brave to Waterfox to see if that would alleviate the issue, no dice. Also tried disabling hardware rendering across all browsers to see if that would help the issue, no change. On average system freezes 1-2x a day.
Generally, the only thing I can do to ease the problem is close some of the apps, particularly browsers with a lot of tabs/ windows open. It's understandable that my system load is heavy due to all the browser tabs (prolly no more than 100 total across all browsers) and that easing pressure would ease the issue, but with native OSX laptops it would never freeze, just performance became very degraded. I'm wondering if there is something settings wise I can augment to prevent the system from seizing up.
Attached is a screenshot of the system pressure on GPU in particular (ram hovers 20-30% usage and CPU 1-10%) which always has video memory practically maxxed out. I've thought maybe just upgrading the bottleneck to an RX 6900 XT may help, but still the freezing is concerning.
