Trying to use my programs like Adobe Bridge keeps crashing and saying I'm low on memory even tough I have 90-100GB of free space. All other programs are closed and I tried clearing the memory in the system terminal program. Any ideas on what's going on!? - Also I have added lots of memory maxing the slots out at 16GB 1333 MHz DDR3
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Memory ≠ disk space.
Clearly you have sufficient free disk space, so it's your system memory that must be insufficient. How much does your iMac have?
Read: Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used
If it is telling you that you are out of Application Memory, means your RAM is full. It may be holding onto information it was supposed to have flushed out. You can try resetting your PRAM with the following steps:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379?viewlocale=en_US
You can also open up Disk Utility, select your Mac HD, select the Erase tab and Erase Free Space. This can also help clear up temp files in the system that were supposed to have been dumped.
Open activity monitor in /Application/Utilities. Navigate to the " system memory" tab. What is reported under "pageouts" and "swap used"?
The Activity monitor says I have 7.5 out of 16 gg free
0 bytes under Page Outs and 0 Bytes under Swap used
The Adobe error is spurious since you obviously have an abundant amount of memory available.
It is possible that Adobe is unable to write to its cache file, a location on your Mac for Adobe to store data such as thumbnail and preview images, and Adobe Bridge is erroneously reporting that inability as insufficient memory.
You should really solicit Adobe's help for this problem, but if you are willing to continue pursuing it here consider the following:
Open Disk Utility - it's in your Mac's Utilities folder. In the column on the left, locate your Mac's startup volume. It is an icon located below the uppermost icon and is usually named "Macintosh HD". Select it and click the Repair Disk Permissions button. It will take a few moments to complete. Many "Permissions differ... " and "Repaired... " messages will appear, perhaps hundreds of them. They are not important, but if any errors appear please describe them.
When Disk Utility finishes with the message Permissions repair complete, quit Disk Utility and determine if Adobe Bridge continues to report the low memory condition.
Okay, so your inactive RAM is being cleared before any swap occurs. This is good, however, the inactive RAM should be flushed by the software before you receive the prompt from Adobe regarding low memory. This is a false notification.
I would contact Adobe support directly.
Computer is low on memory even though I have 100GB available
