Just a little postscript then.
I got the stutters again, and 18/24 GB RAM used is still in the green zone memory-pressure-wise. Click on a new page and there's that instant pause. But I happened to have the CPU view on in Activity Monitor and noticed a CPU spike. Interesting.
Of course I was reading ASR forum with a few tabs open in that window. I had another window open at dezeen.com, an architecture site. Lots of image content on their pages, but opening a new tab didn't trigger a CPU spike or result in an audio pause.
Here's a screenshot of the CPU spikes each time I hit the ASR alert menu or open a new ASR forum tab (too short duration to catch % in window, but it doesn't appear to be the steady-state % CPU you can see in the table that causes the stutter):
I get stutters when reading the news as well, and opening the guardian.com/au is similarly hard work for the M2 running Ventura. Here's the muti-core view of the CPU history:
The very first little spike you see on performance cores 5+6 only is a new Dezeen tab, by contrast both ASR (first cluster of tall spikes) and The Guardian (second cluster) saturate all the cores (opening a few tabs each, not too fast though). For some reason ASR really hits the efficiency cores, but Guardian is worst overall. It'll be interesting to compare to Sonoma when I upgrade.
I got the stutters again, and 18/24 GB RAM used is still in the green zone memory-pressure-wise. Click on a new page and there's that instant pause. But I happened to have the CPU view on in Activity Monitor and noticed a CPU spike. Interesting.
Of course I was reading ASR forum with a few tabs open in that window. I had another window open at dezeen.com, an architecture site. Lots of image content on their pages, but opening a new tab didn't trigger a CPU spike or result in an audio pause.
Here's a screenshot of the CPU spikes each time I hit the ASR alert menu or open a new ASR forum tab (too short duration to catch % in window, but it doesn't appear to be the steady-state % CPU you can see in the table that causes the stutter):
I get stutters when reading the news as well, and opening the guardian.com/au is similarly hard work for the M2 running Ventura. Here's the muti-core view of the CPU history:
The very first little spike you see on performance cores 5+6 only is a new Dezeen tab, by contrast both ASR (first cluster of tall spikes) and The Guardian (second cluster) saturate all the cores (opening a few tabs each, not too fast though). For some reason ASR really hits the efficiency cores, but Guardian is worst overall. It'll be interesting to compare to Sonoma when I upgrade.
