Your System has Run out of Application memory

Hello Everyone,

First post ever so please pardon any rookie mistakes. I have a Macbook Pro 15". It was solidly running Mountain Lion when the Mavericks update came along. I of course installed it not thinking twice about it just to realize two things:

A number of details are left out of the New 10.9 Update, such as the fact that Microsoft Outlook 2011 will not sync your calendars, tasks, notes, etc. with the computer as this has been deactivated.

What's quite more challenging, the error posted here started happening a couple days ago.

Now, I am a former Windows user, switched to Mac OSX about five years ago. I remember those days when Mac OSX was such a strong powerful system that it was a wonder to realize your blue screen and crash occurrences were gone.

Today, it is sadly not impressive to notice how similar the current behavior of OSX Mavericks is to those dates of Windows Vista. "Your System has run out of application memory"... At the moment, my intent is to remove OSX 10.9 and go back to 10.8 somehow. This is eerily similar to the time I had to remove Windows Vista and Install Windows XP into an HP Table computer, just so I can work with the system in a perfect manner.

Until Apple solves this and many other issues with Mavericks, I am sorry to say I will never again click the Update automatically button in my Apple System. Quality seems to be on a downward trend.

Good luck everyone!

RT

Why bring out something new just to have failure rates! If Steve Jobs was there heads would roll! I and a lot of other people have been with Apple since SE's and now Maverick has a Stability problem! To deny does not fix?

I have Mavericks on my Macs, no stability problems at all.

I just got my macbook pro a couple of months ago and I've only recently started having this issue. Do you think it would be worth the trip to an apple store to see if they have a solution to this problem? Or are we going to have to wait for an update?

roguetoc wrote:

Until Apple solves this and many other issues with Mavericks, I am sorry to say I will never again click the Update automatically button in my Apple System. Quality seems to be on a downward trend.

Good luck everyone!

RT

Mavericks did not install automatically, you chose to download and install it. If you can't set it up correctly restore your backup.

I think this may fix the problem at least you should try this free app. It frees memory that Mavericks can't. So give this a try.

Try clearing some memory via Memory Clean (dl here:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/memory-clean/id451444120?mt=12)

It has controls that you can let it clean auto or at startup.

I just set mine to auto clean and Threshold Level to 1638 mb

All that will do is slow your machine down while the 'freed' memory is replaced.

And it has great potential to destabilize your Mac.

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I've Recently Been having that same problem as well. Anytime I even if I have two applications out It will start to bring that stupid pop-up saying I'm almost out of application memory. I recently just bought MacKeeper seeing that I already had performance issues with my Mac thinking that would solve the problem, but only solved other problems. I honestly think it's all the updating that Apple has been making to Mavericks is the reason being of this memory issue. C'mon Appple! Can't be worried about how long I keep simple applications open like my web browser or iTunes open until that stupid pop-up comes up and have to close everything out and restart my Mac! It's getting really annoying, especially with me being a new time Mac user!

1. MacKeeper is crap, remove it.

2. What have you done to troubleshoot your problem (complaining does not count as troubleshooting)

Mavericks uses as much Ram as you have, normal behaviour.

Open Activity Monitor, go to the Memory Page, if the graph is green you do not have memory problems.

Memory Cleaner is doing a fine job. As I work the memory goes down then Memory Cleaner starts and I get 2 gigs or so back. I have been using it for a week and untill Mavericks is fixed, it's a great help for anyone that can't spend day playing computer geek.

Not compatible with Mavericks memory management system. You have not freed anything, just messed it up.

All you are doing is slowing your Mac down until the Ram is reallocated.

But it's your Mac.

So - I was having this problem - "Out of Application Memory" whenever I tried to download a large file. I just downloded Apple's Mavericks "Stability Update". I think they found and fixed the problem (would be nice if they had acknowledged the problem though) since after the download and install of the "Stability Upgrade" I don't get the "Out of Application Memory error" and have my brand new Mac Pro lock up.

Try the new download and see if the problem goes away...

Just out of curiosity, the actual number of that update would be what, now?

Open the app store & expand the info for each of the updates. You'll see that 10.9.3 has 'stability' in it's description.

You can also read more if you follow the links, since it doesn't mention the 'Application memory' dialog I'd have to assume it is not specifically patched and the issue may be a conflict with something else? YMMV