M4 Max MacBook Pro Is continuously freezing

Thanks for responding. I've identified the problem. It's described in the forum linked below. It's an issue caused by Seqouia where Spotlight is clashing with Pages. It's a pretty serious problem but I think it will require Apple to address it.

Continued corespotlightd process CPU over… - Apple Community

Do you have any other ideas of how this can be resolved? Thank-you so much.

My apologies. Here's a description.

Spotlight is consistently under load. Every minute or so, the system will freeze and begin to beachball. Any keyboard entry gets buffered during that time. The freezes can be seen in Activity monitor. When the computer beachballs all disk access is frozen.

The community post that I linked to seems to suggest that this problem is related to Spotlight trying to index pages documents. I can confirm that this problem get's worse when pages is open as Spotlight is constantly trying to reindex pages documents. But it can happen when pages is not open. I would assume that it is still linked with spotlight trying to index Pages documents.

I have completely wiped my Mac twice. The problem goes away for a week or two and then comes back. As mentioned, this seems to be an issue with Sequoia. I hope Apple releases a fix soon.

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