MAC startup disc has no more space availa…

MAC startup disc has no more space available for application memory.

I have a new mac, very little memory being used, and only a few programs being run...safari, i-tunes, etc. This error window keeps coming up "Your Mac OS X Start up disc has no more space available for application memory. To aviod problems, quit any applications and close windows you are not using. removing files you are not using from your start up disc will help". This window will come up with only finder and safari running, no other applications running. This has been going on for several weeks now off and on. What is causing this and what can I do?

iMac

Posted on Dec 10, 2011 12:30 PM

Dec 11, 2011 3:41 PM in response to Star1

Star1 wrote:

Hi Gary,

i think the problem lies in this fact:

"Start up disc has no more space available for"

It is a problem with your HD space, NOT memory...

Just so Gary doesn't get confused by this, this message is not to be confused with "Startup disk is almost full." "No more room on startup disk for Application Memory" normally means the system is out of RAM and is trying to continue by writing instead to the drive, and the drive is too full, even, for that.

What is puzzling, Gary, is whenever you've looked, you have adequate RAM and, besides, even if you didn't, you have more than enough free space on your drive.

As Kappy suggested, you should be looking at memory usage and what apps are open and runnning the next time this message appears.

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/lackofram.html