iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) 7,000+ Crashes found in EtreCheck

[Jayhawk Raven]

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) is behaving very unstable with a lot of crashes and stalls. The Mail App started giving me grief about having run out of space a few days ago. It has gotten progressively worse. (The computer seems to run fine if I do not use the Mail App.) I think the drive is filled up with crash logs, as EtreCheckPro showed over 7 thousand crashes in the past few days. EtreCheck log is attached. The crashes are only in a few categories:

5,368 com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService
2,070 cloudd
226 photolibraryd
7 Dropbox
7 bird
2 ScreenTimeAgent
1 identityservicesd


Basic Info about my mac:
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017)
3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
iMac Fusion
Radeon Pro 570 4 GB


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jayhawk Raven]

I probably should have posted this in macOS Catalina (10.15). I do not see how to delete the thread, so I will leave it here. It a mod can move it where it should go that would be great. Sorry.

 

[nambuccaheadsau]

What about your external backup drive. Is it working okay?

 

[Jayhawk Raven]

Yes. I have everything backed up.

 

[nambuccaheadsau]

Attachment does not open. Maybe one of the drives is playing up. Boot from your external backup and run Repair Disk over the Blade Drive portion first and see what is advised. Otherwise try booting into Recovery, erase Catalina from the blade and do a download of Catalina over the 'net.

 

[Jayhawk Raven]

Thank you for the response. I did not have time to try it until yesterday. Repair disk did not find anything. I couldn't figure out how to erase Catalina from the blade, so I just went with the upgrade to Big Sur. It took forever, but everything seems to be working fine (or at least better than it was).

 

[Jon Snell]

I have given up trying to install Monterey Beta. Even the 'ironed out' Beta 3 has issues with my 27" Retina i7 with 64gB Ram. System load, looks good but try to do anything and it freezes, Reboot holding Command, Option and R keys is the only way out back to Big Sur.
As a Beta Tester, I reported the issues to Apple but they have not responded.