Your System has Run out of Application memory

10.9.3

I think I have finally gotten my iMac mid 2010 27" back to normal. i ignored updates for quite awhile until all the planets aligned. I disconnected my WD external hard drive and added a 3T Apple Time Capsule. I upgraded the machine to the full 16g of memory allowable. I waited for the 10.9.3 update. I did all the updates including the Apeture 3.5.1 and the iMovie and 10.9.3 Mav and I have not seen the out of memory error again. Even with have Apeture and Lightroom 5 open at the same time. Not sure which thing did the trick- maybe it was all of it combined. All i know is that I am up and running better than ever now. So thank you to all who have pointed out all the above mentioned issues that needed to be remedied.1 or all did the trick.

I just started seeing this error dialog today, one day after upgrading to 10.9.3. I never saw it before. Concerning to say the least.

I just upgraded to OS X Maverick 10.9.3 (latest version) and since that a get a message saying that I just run out of application memory even when everything is closed except chrome or firefox.

I downloaded the app "Memory Clean" but the message keeps appearing.

What else can I do to fix this update problem?

Close Chrome and test.

With the only internet navigator that doesn´t have problem is with chrome. But everytime I use firefox or safari the message appears, and I need firefox because chrome doesn´t open the pages I need I don´t know why.

Have you tested without Chrome installed.

Nop, I haven´t. Will it make a difference? Its the only one working.

Memory Clean just makes it worse because it is using RAM to run.

It's a test, we'll see if it makes a difference.

And, download a copy of Etrecheck, run it and post the report here.

Eric Root wrote:

Memory Clean just makes it worse because it is using RAM to run.

And by emptying operating caches it will slow the computer down until the caches are refilled, leaving the Mac in the same state it was before all that time wasting.

here is the report:

EtreCheck version: 1.9.11 (43) - report generated June 10, 2014 at 5:06:23 PM GMT-5

Hardware Information:

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro10,1

1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores

8 GB RAM

Video Information:

Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: (null)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 1024 MB

System Software:

OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 0 days 1:44:28

Disk Information:

APPLE SSD SM256E disk0 : (251 GB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 250.14 GB (35.76 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

USB Information:

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Gatekeeper:

Anywhere

Kernel Extensions:

[not loaded] com.microsoft.VirtualPC.Networking (7.0.1) Support

[not loaded] com.microsoft.VirtualPC.OSServices (7.0.1) Support

[kext loaded] com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.74) Support

[not loaded] com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverVSP (0.0.74) Support

Startup Items:

PenTabletDriver: Path: /Library/StartupItems/PenTabletDriver

Problem System Launch Daemons:

[failed] com.apple.AOSNotificationOSX.plist

[failed] com.apple.softwareupdated.plist

[failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support

[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist Support

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support

[running] com.rim.BBDaemon.plist Support

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist Support

Launch Agents:

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support

[running] com.rim.BBAlbumArtCacher.plist Support

[running] com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist Support

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist Support

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist Support

User Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support

User Login Items:

iTunesHelper

VMware Fusion Start Menu

Dropbox

USBOverdriveHelper

PenTabletDriver

Google Drive

Internet Plug-ins:

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.06 - SDK 10.6 Support

AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.06 - SDK 10.6 Support

Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update

Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.0 Support

Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 Support

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 51 Check version

Safari Extensions:

Dashlane: Version: 2.4.0.56001

Audio Plug-ins:

BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9

AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9

AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9

iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9

iTunes Plug-ins:

Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9

User Internet Plug-ins:

Dashlane: Version: Dashlane 1.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support

3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player Support

Java Support

Time Machine:

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU:

103% firefox

10% mds

8% P72E3GC48.com.dashlane.DashlaneAgent

2% WindowServer

1% fontd

Top Processes by Memory:

5.17 GB firefox

180 MB Finder

147 MB WindowServer

49 MB Microsoft Excel

29 MB mds

Virtual Memory Information:

28 MB Free RAM

3.26 GB Active RAM

3.24 GB Inactive RAM

1008 MB Wired RAM

5.60 GB Page-ins

31 MB Page-outs

Do you use a Blackberry?

And remove all of these from the login items, they can be put back and checked one by one, later.

User Login Items:

VMware Fusion Start Menu

Dropbox

USBOverdriveHelper

PenTabletDriver

Google Drive

I removed google drive and dropbox. I don´t find the others.

No I don´t have blackberry.

You have a lot of Blackberry stuff running, look in your report, everything with BB or the name Blackberry is a potential problem and you don't even need it?

Was this a used Mac? or did you ever have a BB?

USBOverdrivehelper is a 3rd party driver for a non Apple mouse or keyboard, do you have a mouse or keyboard not made by Apple?

There is also a tablet driver, PenTablet, do you use a tablet?

And finally are you running Windows on your Mac?