[navjack27]

Strange! Are you on the latest beta of macOS? Do you have the whatever the heck it's called search indexing thing that Mac OS has disabled? Those are the only two things that I'm doing with my system that I can think of offhand. I like never have situations where I'm out of RAM and swapping and if I do it's never to the point where it's making my computer unusable. I even use VS code with a whole bunch of really complicated extensions installed for different workspaces and it's no issue.

Edit: are you closing things or are you quitting things?

[reaperman]

Not on beta. Haven't disabled search index manually. Closing certain tabs (especially reddit or other adware garbage sites) helps a lot, as does quitting. Discord is just a huge hog for me, but I'm on a lot of servers there.

I appreciate the search index tip!

I also have a work-issued M2 MBP with 32GB which has none of the slow-down issues I see on my personal M1 no matter what I do. Though sometimes the FireEye anti-malware process 'xagt' gets stuck using a shitload of CPU non-stop and murders the battery - killing that it immediately starts cooling down the outer case temperature noticeably within a few seconds, which is crazy. It starts up again shortly but doesn't continue using CPU like crazy ... I really need to write a daemon to do that automatically for me rather than just when I notice battery going way too fast.