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#1554 Skim very slow on M2
Hi. I am having trouble with Skim on a M2 Macbook Air. I use it to make notes at sheet music. Before, when I worked with a 2016 Intel MacBook Pro, there was absolutely no errors. With the m2 Skim is very lagguish, sometimes even hanging when moving a simple circle. The Activty Monitor shows only between 0,7 and 2 percent of system use.
Are there problems with m2 chipset?
Thank oy in Advance
I have no idea, and unfortunately I also have no way to test.
Can you make a sample of Skim when it is being sluggish? You can make a sample using Activity Monitor.
It does look to be a problem with PDFKit on an M2, as I see several complaints about problems with Preview on M2. There is probably no chance we can fix this. This is more a bug for Apple to fix (and to be reported to).
Is this behaving better in 1.7.7?
Yes, I am using 1.7.7. When I compress a PDF things get better, with almost no freezes. I have the problem with small PDFs, not necessarily huge files. In Preview there is no trouble at all with all files, even without compression.
Attached are the sample and a screenshot f it when hanging.
Thank you! Best regards
So are you saying it is not behaving better in 1.7.7, or is it?
I don't see much in the sample. It just seems to be waiting for events, nothing much else, it is not doing anything at all.
So I don't see anything I could do.
Its not working better in 1.7.7. Sorry for the confusion.
I dont know if I got the sample in a right way, never did it before. If I
made an error with the sample I can do a new.
Meanwhile I will be compressing files, seems to work for the moment.
Thank you in advance! Its an amazing software.
Last edit: Christiaan Hofman 2024-12-13
The sample was taking with Skim just being idle. So that shows absolutely nothing. It should be taken when it hangs or is otherwise too slow. For the rest I have absolutely no useful information, so tyhere is nothing I can do.