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It'd be an extremely esoteric one if these products crash it and literally nothing else does including: - Hours of CPU and RAM burn - Multiple concurrent VMs
by api 6y ago
It'd be an extremely esoteric one if these products crash it and literally nothing else does including:
- Hours of CPU and RAM burn
- Multiple concurrent VMs running different OSes (Windows 10 and Linux).
- "make -j8" on a large C++ code base
- Visual Studio Code and other large Electron apps that also run under a JIT.
- I ran a 3D graphics demo to stress test the GPU, no issues.
Zero crashes of any kind, then I launch a Jetbrains app and boom at a frequency of about once per hour of app use. Sometimes the app just crashes, sometimes the whole machine crashes and does so very "hard."
The simplest explanation is an Apple bug being triggered by a Jetbrains runtime or JVM bug, or if not an outright bug something really odd and out of the ordinary that this software is doing via some OS API. Given that it only happens on this machine my bet would be on something video or screen related as the GPU differs slightly from other Mac laptops and that's a common place for bugs to hide.
- bob1029 6y agoGPU seems like a reasonable path to investigate. Would testing with an external GPU be able to validate this theory?
- _bxg1 6y agoRecent Mac GPUs have been... weird. I've had small artifacts on three different 16-inch MBPs (one that I returned, a replacement that I decided to keep, and one that I was issued at work).