what I was doing: hit the red close on a chrome window. ui froze. windowserver cpu jumped to 79% then dropped to almost nothing (stuck in the kernel). ~50s later the watchdog killed it and the desktop restarted. wechat work ~900mb, wechat, chrome, antigravity were all open.
Mac desktop keeps dying while I work. Not an app crash — macOS kills WindowServer.
2020 13" MacBook Pro (MacBookPro16,2), Intel Iris Plus only, 32 GB.
Same failure on macOS 14.8.5 AND 26.5.2. Not Tahoe-only.
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already tried the usual stuff. not heat — logs were Nominal/Moderate. Termius wasn't even running. chrome hw accel was already off. windowserver wasn't some 1GB monster this time either, like 340MB rss.