Your System has Run out of Application memory

Yeah I tried to repair the disk permission but still useless.

Ok, what else have you tried?

Besides disk permission, I also tried to reset the pram, and do the clean install as well.

But same thing happens even if I do the clean install (with the backup data transfer from time machine)

What start up items are you launching at boot?

Teamviewer, papers 2, splashtop stream, Dropbox, and alfred.

Everytime when I reboot, it'll stay fast for about ten minutes and then becomes slow again and out of memory. The indexing is over so I'm sure it's not because of indexing.

Try not loading Teamviewer and splashtop stream and see if that solves the issue. Also do you have the latest version of dropbox? 2.4.4

Yes I have the latest Dropbox. Let me check if I turn off those two apps.

I can confirm devicemgrd to be the issue on my Mac Mini running OS X 10.9 and OS X Server 3. Screenshots are available here.

It turns out to be the same even if I turn off them

😢

I had the "out of app memory" problem earlier today. I found some old junk startup apps (e.g. "tap" and "tun" from an old Wireshark release, plus other stuff) in /Library/StartupItems and /System/Library/StartupItems, and I removed them.

I also disabled CrossOver's CD/DVD helper app that checks for new optical disks being inserted.

And I removed RB Checker Lite that had some helper process running in the background.

And I disabled Air Server from running at startup.

Something APPEARS to have made a difference, because I've just thrashed my Mac for 2 hours running everything from VMWare Fusion with 2GB VMs + iTunes + Maps + a whole bunch of other stuff simultaneously, and I can't get the "out of app memory" error ro recur. Activity Monitor still says my memory pressure is OK (green).

This is bug-fixing by superstition at its worst, but so far my system seems OK now. Fingers crossed...

(Of course, it probably means there's still some other app that's really the cause, that I haven't happened to run yet.)

The following command solved for me the problem related to devicemgrd and OS X Server under Mavericks:

sudo -u _devicemgr /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/psql -d devicemgr_v2m0 -h /Library/Server/ProfileManager/Config/var/PostgreSQL -c “DELETE FROM db_notifications WHERE message LIKE ‘[DMDevicemgrd updateAllProfilesForID:%';"

More info at http://www.michaelkummer.com/2013/10/27/mavericks-your-system-has-run-out-of-app lication-memory/

Same problem. 16GB of ram on a mid-2012 macbook pro and nothing but mail running and stuck with no windows open. Mail and kernal_task are together maxing out my ram in a matter of minutes after rebooting. The two will swap with mail sometimes running between 5 and 10 GB and kernal_task going between 1.5 and 12GB.

At times com.apple.internetacounts is using 99% of the CPU and mail is using 80+ precent for between 2 and 7 threads.

My google account is turned off but my iCloud mail dates back to 2002. I suspect that it's trying to index my mail folder or something.

The only relief that I've had was when I tried to reboot and then let my machine sit while it tried to quit mail. It eventually gave up since mail was unreponsive but that cleared up the kernal_task memory usage to almost nothing and so I let it sit again hoping that it will finish indexing or something. I tried that trick a second time with no luck.

Apple better fix this bug soon since I'm not sure how long I can run my machine without using email.

I have got excatly the same problem with my MB Pro Retina 3Ghz / 8 GB Ram

Never had that type of problem with a mac since 4-5 years

I get stuck anytime, even just 1 application is running

That's very annoying. I had to reboot 10 times today

Same problem here with:

MBP Retina 2.6Ghz i5

8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

OS X 10.9

Tried command-r-option-p at restart and repairing permission but problem remains.

I have "forced quit" "CalendarAgent" in activity monitor and it worked fine, but after 3 min. "CalendarAgent" was eating back my memory (up to 4 GB)