NEW MacBook Air M1 8gb 256gb: "your system has run out of application memory"

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That is all reasonable, maorfrommiami.

One of the trends I have been noticing with many ‘blogs (first with LinkedIn), is with incremental loading of content, all within a single page, seemingly without any fixed end!

I don’t see how this can lend itself to using server-side memory (unless one may see “reloading” activity as one scrolls back up such an unlimited page).

On the browser side, one might have to use some special coding, in order to properly swap such data out and back in.

I’ve never had any browser issues with LinkedIn, but I have not had experience with other sites that might use “unlimited” page sizes.

While I have cause to suspect that LinkedIn’s coding practices are “sub-par”, at best; if one were to have no problems with such “unlimited” pages, there, but were to have problems elsewhere; I think that would suggest even worse coding methods were being used.

My wife and I purchased two MBA M1 computers in early December, after using Macbook Pros for the past few years. Both machines were 8gb ram, 512gb SSD. Both of us have been getting the “your system has run out of application memory” message on the new MBAs when only a few standard business applications are open. Our Macbook Pros also have 8gb of ram and we never got an out of application memory message.

When we bought the new machines Apple advised us that the M1 chip uses memory in a more economical manner so additional ram memory would not be needed. If this is true, it’s odd that we’re getting the out of application memory message on the Airs when we never got that message on the Pros, even though both machines have 8gb of ram.

Here’s my question: is there some sort of glitch in how the OS is tracking or using ram that is something other than that the machine is actually maxing out ram?

We called the Apple Mac group about this, didn’t get a good answer but were advised to return the 8gb machines and purchase 16gb machines.

Welcome, Laudify, to Apple Support Communities!

Where are you being told this claim of «“100mb of ram available” on a 16gb ram computer».

I, similarly, have a 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, M1 Mac mini.

I am not at all surprised that all my (16GB) RAM is being used, along with many GBs of “swap” (Virtual Memory [VM]) being used, when I’m doing my work.

I expect no less.

Unless one is woefully underutilizing your computer, you should never have any «ram available»!

(I predict that it won’t be too many years before we are talking about TBs of RAM [or its, then, equivalent], and PBs [thousands of TBs] of “drive” storage space. We won’t have free “RAM”, then, either!)

I just picked up the base model MacBook Air M1 3 days ago and get the error message "webpage using significant memory" every time I stream a video or browse the internet... with 1 tab open. I had a video shut down 3 times. I'm ready to return the laptop....

I have the same on my I7 iMAc2020 with 24Gb memory and a sdd of 1TB, where almost 500Gb was free. I was using Final Cut Pro, it was using almost 125Gb. On my old late 2009 imac, i had this never . ;) Othber opened apps where Firefox, 320Mb, Skitch 57mb and Finder 67Mb.

So, baltusf, did «Final Cut Pro» actually present you with the “your system has run out of application memory" error message? Or did it simply quit? Or are you simply noting the “Memory” value you could see, for «Final Cut Pro», within the Memory tab of Activity Monitor?

Is your «I7 iMAc2020 with 24Gb memory and a sdd[sic] of 1TB» running Big Sur? Latest version?

If so, are you running the latest version of «Final Cut Pro»?

Keep getting this error as well. I have a MacBook Air 500 MB, 8GB RAM running Catalina. Tried many potential fixes...nothing worked. Annoying message pops up in the middle of work, have to close what I'm doing, etc. Gave up and bought M1 1TB, 16GB running Big Sur. Transferred everything using Migration assistant. Same error popping up!! Ugh. @Apple - please weigh in.

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… Ugh. @Apple - please weigh in.

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Alanportable wrote:

hi did you find a solution; I am having the same issue with Mac mini M1

though it was incpmatable plugins ,worked ok for a few hours then went back

While there is no one “solution”, yet, I recommend that you read through this entire Discussion—paying special attention to High Level users.

You should find, then, some useful pointers, pertaining to various potential causes of such issues: especially in cases where the Application involved is a web-browser.

i have been experiencing the same issue and have the 16gb MBA.

I am also finding that it is shutting down my browser so I’m losing all my tabs and I’m getting screen freeze and flickering.

yes I have a lot of tabs open and yes I use extensions which is why I bought the 16gb. I never had this message with my old 4gb MB Air.

I solved the issue, sort of, it seems to do with importing video files, large amounts, so now i just import 3/4 files at a time... Seems to be a bug with final cut, also i uninstalled all plugins not compatable with apple silicon...

Samesies. I JUST purchased the most expensive MacBook Air. 16GB 1TB storage. Using Chrome (and every single other application closed), I get an error that my system has run out of application memory. Never happened on my 2017 MacBook Pro. Disappointing because I replaced this as a founder of company and it's supposed to be my fancy new computer to run my business from. My Zoom quit video and crashed in the middle of an interview after getting this error also.