Your System has Run out of Application memory

True your Mac needs to be fixed. So when are you going to stop whining and moaning here and get started on fixing it?

I had the same problem with my previous iMac - ended up having to put in more ram chips, which did fix the problem, but at a cost.

My new iMac which has 8GB of ram on board is now suffering from the same problem and in spite of having been through a series of 'fixes' with Apple support, including reinstalling the OS X operating system, the problem persists.

While speaking to the help desk at my ISP about an unrelated issue, I asked if they'd had any similar queries and he pointed out that there were 116,000+ posts just here on the Apple support site and that while we were on the phone, several hundred more posts appeared, so it's not as if this is an unusual problem.

Isn't it time Apple actually did something about this? If this was a car I'd just bought, I'd ask for my money back. Because it's a computer glitch, does Apple just assume that we'll just put up with it?

I have a similar issue.

My Macbook Air runs out of memory all the time.

When it boots up I have about 25Gb available but if I leave it on for a while it quickly goes down and eventually completely runs out of memory in a few hours.

I have no idea what process is doing this and I tried force quitting everything that was open at the time but it still runs out of memory quickly.

If it was a windows PC I would think virus but this is a mac and I have Symantec installed and updated daily.

Uninstall Symantec.

Thanks for your Reply CT.

Does that not put my Mac into danger?

I was advised to install Symantec when I bought it

Bad advice, remove it.

Are you sure. Paid for Symantec and not sure if I can reinstall it once removed?

You should not have installed it in the first place.

It's your choice.

Yes, I concur with Csound1. That was extremely bad advice.

The directions to remove Symantec are at http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH103489

Okay thanks.

Just checked several forums and some say you need antivirus on a mac and others say I don't.

Doesn't removing Symantec mean I'm open to viruses and malware.

Also, Symantec wouldn't be the reason I run out of memory that quickly would it?

I mean, no antivirus program should use 20Gb in a day?

Symantec now removed but memory is still eating away.

Any other suggestions as to what could be the problem?

And is my Mac not less protected now against such things?

You can think of Symantec on your Mac as a black hole for computer resources. It uses an inordinate amount of system resources just a black hole

draws everything into itself. And like a black home it returns nothing for those resources.

No. Symantec was in fact protecting your Mac from nothing.

Please read http://www.thesafemac.com/mmg-antivirus/

Install Etrecheck and run it, post the report here

I have been using a variety of Mac systems for over 10 years without an antivirus system.

MacOS is extremely sturdy. At present, as far as I know, the easiest way to install malware of any sort on a Mac is via social engineering, which basically means you help the guys in black hats subvert your own system.

I have many friends who I have converted to Mac from Windows. None of them runs antivirus. This is because MacOS is very secure indeed. One day someone may work out a way to subvert the hundreds of millions of Macs but until that day antivirus is a waste of time and resources (and a possible source of errors itself)