Your system has run out of application memory

Pookina wrote:

I'm having the same problem. It's been going on for the last week. I'm running an M1 Max MacBook Pro 16" with 32GB memory. Storage is half full. The message occurs even when the only things I have open are Safari and Finder.

Read and follow the information here

Your system has run out of application me… - Apple Community

This will help you to identify the app, or more likely the background daemon or agent that is causing your problems. While it could be an Apple bug, it could also be a bug in an 3rd party program that has not been updated for your new macOS release, but is tripping over something that changed. It is difficult to tell unless the cause is identified.

Monterey memory leaks: https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/15/montereys-memory-leak-and-how-to-avoid-it/

One of our employees received her brand new iMac M1 with 16mb of memory. She got the same error yesterday. I've attached it. Chrome appeared to be the culprit. There were no extensions other than google's. She onIy had five tabs open and they were all related to work. I had them restart the browser and clean the cache. So we will see.

We purchased quite a number of these machines in order to upgrade the employees' aging ones. So, I wonder how long before this shows up on the other ones?

I have the same issue on MacBook Air m1 2020 16GB RAM. Mac OS Monterey 12.1

honestly, I buy apple so I don't have to worry about this stuff so this is so disappointing. is there a recall or a fix for this? unable to use the computer for work.

Sounds useful, thank you, Alexandra, I'll give that a try. Meanwhile just to double-check: is it normal for Safari Version 15.2 (17612.3.6.1.6) with 5 open tabs that contain mostly plain-text and basic HTML content to be showing this in the Activity Monitor? There are of course other processes named after each of the websites open, then there's a separate process for Safari, Safari Graphics and Media, Safari Networking...

Running macOS Monterey 12.1 on a MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015) with 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, around 30GB of the 120GB SSD disk space free. This is how it usually starts to look a couple of hours before another "Your system has run out of application memory" comes on...

I don’t work for Apple either.

I’m an unpaid volunteer.

What I’m doing is providing education on how to identify the root cause.

I just received my M1 Max 10/32c with 32GB RAM and am for the first time seeing this issue. I'm a reasonably heavy After Effects user and Monterey appears to be having problems managing the memory here. Whether this is Adobe or Apple remains to be seen but judging as other users are experiencing the same problem without mentioning Adobe I'm inclined to believe the issue is with OS X. This isn't something I've seen in the 15 some years of using this professionally even with 4/8 or 16GB of RAM my previous machines. Hopefully this can be fixed in a. future update.

>This is ridiculous. Brand new mac, running only 5 programs - none of which are large editing apps. They are just browsers and small task apps. I'm returning this pos computer

If you read my first reply, I explained why this is happening, and how you can find the offending process (or processes).

But if you want to return your Mac, because it is Christmas season, Apple offers refunds until January 6th (or is it the 8th), assuming you purchased this Mac recently.

We have this problem on an iMac (2019), after upgrading to Monterey. Mail when launched, steadily ramps up memory usage until we receive the .. system has run out of application memory message then mail crashes. I've tried everything I've seen posted, without success. Ran Disk First Aid, now trying on OS re-install. Apple needs to get this problem identified and patched quickly.

I have the same issue too. running new M1 chip mac13 air, even after upgrading to Monterey,same problem. I get it even with only 4 apps open: pages, notes, safari, music,

at some point it will force quit the apps for me, without consent.

everything was running smooth until this!

WhitegoldEmpire wrote:

I have the same issue too. running new M1 chip mac13 air, even after upgrading to Monterey,same problem. I get it even with only 4 apps open: pages, notes, safari, music,

at some point it will force quit the apps for me, without consent.

everything was running smooth until this!

Have you used Activity Monitor to identify the offending processes? See the my first reply to this thread on page 1.

Hi Bob! Thanks for helping dig into this problem. I have a BRAND NEW M1 that I purchased one week ago. It's got 16MB RAM and I'm getting this error too. When I check the Activity Monitor, it tells me that I have plenty of RAM available and no processes are using an excess. But I still get the error. I am running Monterey 12.0.1. Any further thoughts?

I am getting this message constantly after updating to monterey, along with other issues with this new os. it shows certain applications using GB of memory even when those applications don't have any files open in them. I haven't changed a single thing in my workflow other than upgrading to monterey. none of the explanations have helped so far as I can clearly see which applications in the list are using the high GB but there's no explanation on how to reduce their footprint. clearly an issue with monterey that needs a fix asap as I can't get any work done with my whole system repeatedly crashing!

AlexandraTav wrote:

I am getting this message constantly after updating to monterey, along with other issues with this new os. it shows certain applications using GB of memory even when those applications don't have any files open in them. I haven't changed a single thing in my workflow other than upgrading to monterey. none of the explanations have helped so far as I can clearly see which applications in the list are using the high GB but there's no explanation on how to reduce their footprint. clearly an issue with monterey that needs a fix asap as I can't get any work done with my whole system repeatedly crashing!

Quit the offending apps, and restart them. That is my suggestion as a short term fix. If you are not currently running Monterey 12.1, then you should update your macOS version.