I've never had this issue. I'm on an M1 air, and generally it doesn't break a sweat even when I have a ton of demanding things running. The only exception is

I've never had this issue. I'm on an M1 air, and generally it doesn't break a sweat even when I have a ton of demanding things running. The only exception is when I'm running one of my own computer graphics projects, and I accidentally try to allocate frame-buffers which are an order of magnitude or so too large. Even then it's only locked up for a few seconds. I would imagine there is some specific issue which is causing this failure for you. Maybe a bug in some software, or a hardware failure of some kind.