Doctor Aloyan
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Q: Ram failure after using sound buttons

After using sound buttons (F11, F12) my mac becomes crazy. It starts using all my RAM. After opening Activity Monitor I see that loginwindow, WindowServer, kernel_taskand SystemUIServer use all my RAM. Killing that processes doesn't give any results. They appear again and start using my RAM again. Mac OS is freezing so that I can't even rebout my mac. I don't have any idea how to fix this problem.

 

My mac's info:

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Before using sound buttons:

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After pressing that buttons:

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iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on May 18, 2013 12:50 PM

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  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root May 18, 2013 1:25 PM in response to Doctor Aloyan
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    May 18, 2013 1:25 PM in response to Doctor Aloyan

    Try booting into the Safe Mode.  Shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application unistaller. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.

                   

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  • by Doctor Aloyan,

    Doctor Aloyan Doctor Aloyan May 18, 2013 11:53 PM in response to Eric Root
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    May 18, 2013 11:53 PM in response to Eric Root

    I try to boot into the Safe Mode. Everything was working extremely slowly. Sound buttons didn't even work. My mac didn't see any sound device. Almost all my RAM (6,08 GB) was reserved. Here the sreenshot:

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    I cleaned my my mac using CleanMyMac 2. After that I reboot. The problem is the same: after using sound buttons all my RAM become used by list of processes. There is 13,5 free RAM. It is impossible!

    Here the new screenshot if you need it:

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    I don't know what to do. My mac was working without any problem. I didn't install any program before it starts to use my RAM. This problem appeared after reboot while I was watching football on-line and when I want to make the sound louder. Earlier that day I was just using iTunes listening my music. Help me, please.