Mavericks running out of "Application Memory" with 32 GB of RAM

monstamash wrote:

Has anyone downlaoeded Maverick and not had this problem??

Not here, not any of my iMacs, MacBook Pros or MacBook Airs, of various ages and memory configurations ranging from 4 GB to 32 GB.

Experience as a part-time PC administrator will only prove detrimental to using a Mac, and repeated "me too" responses will not be productive no matter how many you post.

If you want to fix your Mac, pleasestart a new Discussion. Thanks!

MAYBE THE ANSWER!!!

My strategy in debugging this problem has been to apply updates one at a time and see how the system operates within a 3-4 hour period with both the email program and browser functioning.

1. First ran the regular updates from App Store. Still had problem.

2. Checked version of Flash and Reader. Updated both. Still had problem

3. Went through one by one various programs that do not get automatically updated (parallels, etc) and updated each. Still had problem.

4. Checked printer drivers for both my Canon printers. Saw they had a Mavericks update on 10/23. Updated both. PROBLEM HAS DISAPPEARED.

Now this has only been one day of fully functioning and no crashes, but this has been the longest period of no crashes yet, even when leting the system go to sleep or screen saver.

Let me know if updating your printer drivers fix your problem.

Cheers

Howie

If you have more than one email account DO NOT UPGRADE TO MAVERICKS.

I've got four. Seems to be a bit more than one.

You were the on who said not to upgrade if you have more than one email account.

Since I did upgrade, and I have more than one email account, your statement is blatantly incorrect.

David Preston1 wrote:

Just updated with Mavericks Mail update, re-booted, STILL FAILING!

Mail taking 5 minutes to load, then using 15 GB of memory and 100% CPU.

If you have more than one email account DO NOT UPGRADE TO MAVERICKS.

Hmmm. Can't seem to find "NOT FOR ME" in that drivel at all.

More than fantastic and thank you ever soooooooooo much. Thanks to the fact that i have back ups on my time machine i was able to go back to the moment I installend 10.8.5. Since i reset my system to that point every thing works splendid!!! BATSHUA THANK YOU!!!

David Preston1,

It could be something on your system, care to post an EtreCheck report?

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

There is no promise it will reveal or fix anything, however having old kernel extensions etc can conflict across the entire system.

If Apple are going through support with you, stick with them & come back here if they fail otherwise I can point out parts to consider removing or updating if you send a report, otherwise take a look at http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck_story for info on the report sections.

Whoops..... I tried following your instructions, but got carried away and deleted, somehow, the startup item that references the MAC OS at startup.... This means that my computer is unable to run. I need help. I got desperate after 30 hours of editing a football game for my sons team, (championship game) and couldn't export due to "not enough app memory". So after buying 16GB of ram, and trying to export, my virtual memory shot up to 80GB, and my kernel tasks were using 15GB and iMovie was only accounting for 1GB memory. The movie would only be 2GB of space.

So after reading this post about removing startup items that might be causing the memory to be overrun I got a little carried away, and I now can't login to my computer. Is there any hope for me? I am nearly ready to throw away my MAC and never buy one again. Any suggestions?

If you have broken the OS you can reinstall by booting into recovery mode.

You want to avoid erasing the HD (not the default install option) & it's a good idea to have a backup of the disk before you start.

Re-installing should just copy the required system files into the disk without overwriting your data, just like when you migrated from the earlier OS.

In my case, the error comes up only when I am in Mail. I have a late 2013 MacBook Pro. As soon as I got it, I transferred everything from my early 2008 MacBook (which was running 10.6.8) using Migration Assistant. All the other applications appear to be working. When I go into Mail, the memory use (viewed through Activity Monitor) immediately climbs until I get the "Application Memory Full" error message, usually in one minute or so. If I force quit mail, the memory use stays high. All applications are unusable until I reboot. It happens even if I disable all mail accounts. Recent Mail updates have no effect on this problem. I have spent several hours on the phone with Apple tech support over the last week. They have copied various log files and sent them to Engineering, but still no answer. . . .