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Q: Your System has Run out of Application memory

I upgraded to Mavericks from Mountain Lion, and I have been getting the error message "Your System has Run out of Application memory", and I am forced to restart the computer to be able to keep working.

 

I have been monitoring the Activity Monitor and I have not found a process that is increasing the amount of memory used. I have seen a proliferation of processes.

 

I have an iMac 27-inch, Late 2012 with a 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7 and 24 GB 1600 MHz DDR3.


iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 27-inch Late 2012; 3.4 GHz i7; 24GB

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 7:33 PM

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  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Mar 15, 2014 11:02 AM in response to Candace50
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    Mar 15, 2014 11:02 AM in response to Candace50

    Have you considered a reinstall? The default 10.9 installer will overwrite the system in place, leaving all the user data & apps intact. Backup first if there is anything you can't afford to lose. Recovery mode will download the installer (do it on Ethernet).

     

    It may help if the installation is corrupt, obviously it's better to try troubleshooting & do all the usual repair disk, run hardware test, reset PRAM, reset power manager, safe boot, try another user account…

    These are all things I would try after a reinstall, then if move on to a clean install followed by a trip to the Applestore.

     

    Hopefully your new Mac will be happier at some point in the process, good luck.

  • by 907nomad,

    907nomad 907nomad Mar 30, 2014 11:39 PM in response to Drew Reece
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    Mar 30, 2014 11:39 PM in response to Drew Reece

    I time machined back to the last backup i knew that aperture and mavericks worked. My computer was fine for a few days until I decided to update just the Aperture to the 3.5.1 and left the Mavericks 10.9.2 update undone. Guess what? The "Application out of memory" message is back with a vengeance. I am now restoring that same backup for just my aperture library. I no longer believe its the OS Mav. I think it's Aperture. do not upgrade to the latest version until they(Apple) get it figured out

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Mar 31, 2014 12:02 AM in response to 907nomad
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    Mar 31, 2014 12:02 AM in response to 907nomad

    But wouldn't everyone using it be experiencing it? I'm not on any of our Macs.

     

    Pete

  • by 907nomad,

    907nomad 907nomad Mar 31, 2014 2:12 PM in response to petermac87
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    Mar 31, 2014 2:12 PM in response to petermac87

    Well Pete- consider yourself lucky then.....

  • by MichelPM,

    MichelPM MichelPM Mar 31, 2014 2:30 PM in response to REPG
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    Mar 31, 2014 2:30 PM in response to REPG

    Some recent time in the past, someone mentioned that if you have any antivirus software OR MacKeeper or any type of third party hard drive/memory  "cleaning" style apps, that once these were completely uninstalled, the Application Memory error went away.

    So, if any of you here in this post, have any thing like this on your systems, you need to search the web or the virus or cleaning app developers' websites for the proper way to uninstall these types of apps off of your systems and see if this error goes away.

     

    If anyone here has MacKeeper installled,here is the link to properly and completely uninstall this "garbageware".

     

    http://www.macexpertguide.com/2012/11/16/uninstall-mackeeper-2012-2011-mac/  

  • by 907nomad,

    907nomad 907nomad Mar 31, 2014 2:47 PM in response to MichelPM
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    Mar 31, 2014 2:47 PM in response to MichelPM

    Yes- i did have that, but have uninstalled it, but this keeps happening....

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Mar 31, 2014 2:50 PM in response to 907nomad
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    Mar 31, 2014 2:50 PM in response to 907nomad

    907nomad wrote:

     

    Well Pete- consider yourself lucky then.....

    No, I just  consider the handful of Aperture users experiencing it as unlucky. As I say, if it were a bug then everyone would be seeing it. If it is a conflict within some system setups, then it it a matter of finding the culprit in each of those systems.

     

    But if you have yourself convinced that it is a bug then report it here Report Bug

    Or file feedback with Apple.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

  • by dansmacbook,

    dansmacbook dansmacbook Apr 2, 2014 7:52 AM in response to REPG
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    Apr 2, 2014 7:52 AM in response to REPG

    Just adding my $.02 to the mix.  Three days ago I did a fresh install of 10.9.2 onto my Samsung EVO 500GB SSD in my 17" MBP (late 2011) with 16GB RAM and a 1.5TB HDD in the optical bay.  I have installed Office, Photoshop, Illustrator, some browsers and stuff from getmacapps.  I had this happen when the following were open: Excel, Word, Firefox, Chrome, Mail, Postbox, Calendar and Address Book running.  This is nothing compared to what I usually have running.  I've maybe seen this error once or three times EVER.  But now with a completely new install, I get it within a couple of days under comparatively light load.  Hope I don't see this anytime soon.  Incidentally, I just had the logic board replaced due to a failed graphics chip.

  • by Kenneth Collins1,

    Kenneth Collins1 Kenneth Collins1 Apr 2, 2014 8:56 AM in response to REPG
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    Apr 2, 2014 8:56 AM in response to REPG

    I have gotten this message occasionally, not linked with any particular application, but usually while Mail is running. For an unrelated reason, the Apple Store found a defective memory socket and replaced my logic board, and now the problem is very rare.

     

    I've read that a lot of people associate this error with Mail. I think there is reason to suspect that Mail is causing the problem:

     

    1. Sometimes I create a file, say, on the desktop, to send as an attachment. After sending the message, I delete the file from the desktop. No matter how long I wait, I can't empty it from the trash because it is allegedly still in use. I have to quit and restart Mail to empty the file from the trash. That scenario might not apply to you, but whatever underlying problem is causing that behavior might pop up in other places that cause the out-of-application-memory message.

     

    2. Preview, and occasionly Mail, do not always quit when they quit. They appear to quit after CMD+Q, but before I can log out or do anything else that requires applications to shut down, I have to force quit them or quit them from the Activity Monitor. Mavericks can't quit them as part of logging out. This might cause out-of-application-memory problems in Preview and Mail, and it might even cause problems in other applications, since the processes aren't freeing up memory.

     

    Apple has ignored all the bug reports about Mail's read/unread flag since at least 2006, had trashed Pages and has stupidified other professional software over customer protests, which shows that Apple doesn't use its own products in its business and doesn't know who is using it for what. They use Microsoft Office, so they probably use Outlook instead of Mail. If they used Mail, these problems would have been obvious and disruptive, and they would have fixed the underlying problem by now.

     

    I don't think we'll see any fixes in the next decade.

  • by darryl-1,

    darryl-1 darryl-1 Apr 3, 2014 10:07 AM in response to Candace50
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    Apr 3, 2014 10:07 AM in response to Candace50

    The spinning wheel is just happening so much! If Mac user's were aware that this is a Mavericks problem I think there would be much more concern. I have tried to work around this and have quit using Fox Fire because it does use a lot of memory but that did not solve it. The problem is the longer Mavericks runs the more memory it uses. So Mavericks bug is you now must restart on a regular basis. Mavericks owns it and the developer are doing a disservice to customers by not getting serious and fixing it. If I was not a Apple lover I would bail out now. At Least Come up with a way to go back to 10.8 or Lyon or Snow Lepord would be an improvement as slow, freezing, restarting!

  • by Somawise,

    Somawise Somawise Apr 3, 2014 10:45 AM in response to darryl-1
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    Apr 3, 2014 10:45 AM in response to darryl-1

    I'm in agreement.  As much as I've tried to uninstall old programs and not have applications running in the background, this problem still pops up.  I find if I shutdown my iMac every couple of days I don't seem to have the issue though.  Thank God I didn't upgrade to Mavericks at work!!!

  • by Krull543,

    Krull543 Krull543 Apr 3, 2014 11:41 AM in response to Somawise
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    Apr 3, 2014 11:41 AM in response to Somawise

    I've been following this thread since just a few days after Mavericks was released and we experienced Mavericks take down a mini running OSX Server. It was running faithfully in our server rack. Nothing insatlled that was not official Mac software, for all the people that keep blaming other softwares, and it just kept locking up. We could restart and in 24 hours the system was totally frozen. Still no resolution or patch from Apple. We have it sucessfully running on a half dozen stations and they have not encountered the same issue. No clue why it is so random.

  • by KARX,

    KARX KARX Apr 5, 2014 5:56 AM in response to REPG
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    Apr 5, 2014 5:56 AM in response to REPG

    I have Mac mini Server (mid 2011) Intel Core i7 2.0 GHz (4 core); dual 500 GB (7200-rpm) hard drives ( 1st -354 GB free space; 2-nd 375 GB free space) ;8 GB PC-10600 (1333 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM (4x4); Intel HD Graphics 3000 512MB ; Mac OS 10.9.2 Mavericks.

     

    1) I close all applications and start iMovie 10.0.2

    2) I upload 2 hours long movie captured in HD 1920x1980 to iMovie Library.

    3) I make a video 15 minutes long.

    4) When I start to play this 15 m. video the message “Your System has Run out of Application memory” appears which forces me to quit iMovie.

    5) I cannot transcode (FULL HD -> HD) 15 m. video because after 9 m of transcoding process “Your System has Run out of Application memory” appears which forces me to quit iMovie.

    6)  More - I cannot even sign in to my YouTube account to share videos because "Invalid Account Name or Password" appears in iMovie 10.0.2 for my absolutely correct Account Name and Password.

     

    The result - I cannot use iMovie anymore, it's useless!

     

    By the way I never had these problems using Mac OS 10.8 & iMovie 9.0.9! I even transcoded without any problems 2+ Hours long videos!

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Apr 5, 2014 9:08 AM in response to KARX
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    Apr 5, 2014 9:08 AM in response to KARX

    Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think anyone has mentioned iMovie in this thread before now.

     

    It suggests that the OS is at fault (generically causing out of memory errors) or there is something else on your system causing iMovie to keel over.

     

    KARX, I think you are going to get better attention if you create your own thread, otherwise you will have to sift through all the other (possibly unrelated) advice that comes and goes. Repost the info & link to it from here.

     

    To resolve your issues you may need to post logs or EtreCheck reports which make the theads long & difficult to follow when everyone is hijacking with 'similar, but not the same issues'.

  • by stedder,

    stedder stedder Apr 5, 2014 9:29 AM in response to Drew Reece
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    Apr 5, 2014 9:29 AM in response to Drew Reece

    I have a Late 2013 iMac, 8 GB, with 10.9.3. I used Migration Assistant to move from an iMac G4 (the old snowball). I am amazed to see all these problems in this thread, as my iMac runs flawlessly with Safari, iMovie, Firefox, Numbers, you name it, Mail, even Mathematica. If I had realized how much faster and how trouble-free it would be, I would have bought it sooner.

     

    I install plenty of third party software, but never anything that monkeys with the Finder, the menubar, that kind of thing. I don't even have Flash on it, or Chrome. When I look at Activity Monitor, my memory pressure is always green.

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