After upgrading to Sonoma I keep getting "Your system has run out of application memory" messages

Recently (at the weekend) bought a new MacBook Pro (16" M2 16MB RAM) after running a 2015 Macbook Pro since new. Everything running swimmingly until upgrading to Sonoma OS – Now I'm getting repeated "Your system has run out of application memory" messages – asking me to Force Quit applications. Often I only have a couple of Applications running! (maybe Safari and Photoshop). The Mac locks up completely – I can't even force quit any apps, and have to restart the machine.

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Oct 11, 2023 10:42 AM

Top-ranking reply

CrocodileJock Author

Level 1

18 points

Posted on Oct 17, 2023 2:18 AM

It was probably a “rogue player” for me. I’ve recently ungraded from a 2015 MacBook, and basically copied everything across from the old machine to the new one. So there was eight years of old apps, fonts, downloads etc… in all proabbablity there was something in there that was conflicting.

I’ve since done a clean install (of Ventura) and am only adding in Apps, font and documents as I need them. So far so good, then in a week or two I might think about upgrading to Sonoma again, but I'll probably wait until version 14.01. Funnily enough it's not flagging up that there is an update available for Ventura for me, as (I think) it did before.

View in context

56 replies

Oct 17, 2023 1:50 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Etrecheck 17.10.2023 after Mail app crash

Etrecheck from today morning after Mail app crashed, I've just opened native Mail and was looking for some sent e-mails.

Kind regards

Martin

chdsl

Level 2

410 points

Oct 17, 2023 7:16 AM in response to CrocodileJock

CrocodileJock wrote:

Funnily enough it's not flagging up that there is an update available for Ventura for me, as (I think) it did before.

Have you enabled updates in System Settings?

Oct 17, 2023 7:34 AM in response to chdsl

I'm an idiot. I've turned on "Security Updates Only" – it shows up if I look for it…

Oct 21, 2023 3:51 AM in response to Nan_DV

This just says that the SPSS software has not been updated for or tested in Sonoma. It is by no means a judgment on the OS.

Oct 26, 2023 12:33 AM in response to chdsl

I really want to – and I'm tempted. But I'm on a stable version now – so I'm going to leave it a couple of days, and not do it when I've got a client deadline.

chdsl

Level 2

410 points

Oct 26, 2023 12:39 AM in response to CrocodileJock

Sonoma 14.1 came yesterday, so there's no hurry.

Your Sonoma is different from mine, though. Yours is Sonoma on ARM, whereas mine is Sonoma for Intel.

chdsl

Level 2

410 points

Nov 9, 2023 11:37 PM in response to johnfromtoorak

johnfromtoorak wrote:

This is an issue with Safari in 14.0.

I've never used Safari 14.0, so don't know how it worked. It is now

kyrnois

Level 1

35 points

Dec 4, 2023 12:21 PM in response to chdsl

Is this the permanent solution? The 3 applications I have are necessary to launch at login.

kyrnois

Level 1

35 points

Dec 4, 2023 12:28 PM in response to chdsl

They're not. The Photos app is taking up the most amount of memory by far: 14.5 GBs. Seems to be an OS issue since I have no control over the Photos app other than deleting it.

Jan 17, 2024 2:30 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

It is Sonoma, i have just started experiencing the same problem since updating, so infuriating. Please someone post a solution or how can we uninstall Sonoma

Feb 8, 2024 9:28 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

For me it was B. I couldn't figure out how I could have filled 32GB of RAM. Somehow I filled up a 1TB drive in a month on a new M3. Thanks!

This thread has been closed by the system or the community team. You may vote for any posts you find helpful, or search the Community for additional answers.

After upgrading to Sonoma I keep getting "Your system has run out of application memory" messages