I am running Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop and I am getting continuous low memory warnings forcing me to quit the application. Until recently I worked from a standard Lenovo Laptop and had no issues with these applications. My workflow has not increased by any significant amount. Any help gratefully accepted .
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
Use Applications -> Utilities -> Activity Monitor -> View (menu) -> All Processes -> Memory (tab)
and see if there is some other process consuming excessive amounts of memory.
Also, if your boot device is very low on storage free space, you can get that message when macOS can not create page/swap files for your high virtual memory use.
Use Applications -> Utilities -> Activity Monitor -> View (menu) -> All Processes -> Memory (tab)
and see if there is some other process consuming excessive amounts of memory.
Also, if your boot device is very low on storage free space, you can get that message when macOS can not create page/swap files for your high virtual memory use.
Hi thanks for this. I did install McAfee but removed it a while ago. I am not a technical person so this is just a maze for me.
The only thing that pops out is FaceBook my system tells me is using a lot of memory. I am exiting fb now when I am working with Adobe Apps.
Also, I would ask how much RAM do you have installed? That is critical. Second, have you installed any antivirus apps or Mac cleaner apps? If so, they are unnecessary and will slow down your computer and should be removed using their respective uninstaller.
With only 8GB of RAM LightRoom and Photoshop may actually be using large amounts of virtual memory.
But just to double check. Do you have lots of free storage on your system? As I said above, if your boot device is very low on storage, you can get the "Your system is out of application memory" message.
Finally, keep Activity Monitor running. The next time you get the message, look at what Activity Monitor says about memory users. It is more useful if you are having the problem when you look, then at sometime when you are not having the problem.
Thank you again. I don't know how to check about "Free storage" I think maybe I made a bad choice for me when I bought the Mac. I worked with Adobe on a laptop for a long time without any of these issues. Thank you for your time, much appreciated.
Free Storage is how much unused space you have on the hard drive. Here is how to tell what you have. Open Disk Utility, which is located in Applications, then go to Utilities. Then click on the icon to open it and it will display a window with your hard drive shown in the left window. Click the down arrow to open the full display. You can then click on the Macintosh HD icon and the display on the right will show how much space is used and how much is unused by the operating system. The icon on the left just below, called Macintosh HD - Data shows how much other files are stored. I hope this clears this upper you.
When you get to a point where you have stored so much data that very little vacant space remains, it can stop you from being able to download operating system updates. At it's worst, the computer will stop functioning.
Select your boot disk icon on your Desktop
Finder -> File -> Get Info
You want "Available:"
Adobe recommends 16GB or more for memory to run Lightroom/Photoshop. So a Mac with 8GB is probably, as you said, a bad choice.
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