Your System has Run out of Application memory

Yes, you are correct about initial releases, they do often have major issues but many are not seeing that so it suggests…

Mavericks + something else = problems

I (and many others) will help you look at what is installed or try isolating the issue(s) (via safe mode, disk repair, logs … whatever is appropriate to YOUR issues) if you can explain what behavior you see and provide a report it will help. A new thread will stop some of the 'crosstalk'.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

I've used EtreCheck and managed to clean up some stuff.

However, I started using Apple Mac 10 years ago and what I have now has migrated from one machine to another and one OSX to another over that time and there is some accumulated debris which I can't find or figure out.

I'm wondering whether it's time to do a clean Mavericks install and re-install all the apps. I have the necessary product keys and Time Machine backups of data.

Thoughts?

There comes a time when breaking the links to years of migrations is the safest bet.

10.9 currently has issues with older kernel extensions & startup items etc. As you learned from Arthur.

Starting fresh might be a good idea if you are willing to take on the work of re-installing apps etc. You may also find what data and apps are important to you. Keep a rough record as you add apps & then if you hit a decrease in performance you can undo those items.

Personally I prefer to take a bootable clone of a system, just incase I need to boot back into it to find where a particular file lives (or to complete a task in an old app) etc. I use Time Machine for those 'oops did I really delete that?!' moments.

🙂

Any one else running a HP printer and seeing the Inkjet4 process growing at an alarming rate? There are other threads on this forum discussing this particular issue.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4910797?tstart=0

I booted and it was using 148MB - it's just about to top 1GB and no one is using the printer. Nothing in the queue either.

Hi Kieron,

I posted a couple of weeks ago on this thread with the same problem but then, as am still running ML was told to start a new thread as this was for Mavericks. The reason I am responding here again is that after following both threads for the past 2 weeks I see a convergence of a problem first mentioned in March of this year with ML. What I have observed from others: Somehow the print function, whether it is in ML or Mavericks, and whether it is HP inkjet process or as in my case under-IP (wireless HP printer) catches a spooled job and then without notifying us that the job is spooling or still in the queue, begins to eat memory until the machine runs out and has be rebooted. After much investigative work and finally tracking this process down, I have been running Activity Monitor in the doc and periodically I check to see if the process has restarted itself and if so I force quit it, and voila, memory returns.

I repeat I am responding to this here because I have now seen that this is a ML and a Mavericks issue and most probably points to a HP/Apple and possibly OS print software bug. The fact that it started in ML and continues in Mavericks most probably means that it was not given attention in the upgrade. Perhaps now, it will be and fixed for all of us.

HP's software has been mentioned elsewhere

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5613780?answerId=23958939022#23958939022

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Linc Davis wrote:

Another process often implicated in memory leaks is "inkjet4" or "inkjet8," which is a component of the HP printing software. If it's present, force-quit the process in Activity Monitor to solve the problem temporarily. Empty the print queues in the Printers & Scanners preference pane (which has a slightly different name in each recent version of OS X.) If you don't use an HP printer, remove the software. Otherwise, if the problem is recurrent, update the software (which may not help) or contact HP support.

Scroll back about 10 posts & read 'richardfromcascais weymouth' posts on 'inkjet9'

Have you looked at an EtreCheck report?

Check if HP are loading startup items or kernel extensions - this will not help system stability. Create your own thread if you want feedbck on EtreCheck reports - it's too confusing to follow in someone elses thread.

After hours of experimenting with system 10.9x reinstalls, swaping boot drives, running tons of diagnostic software, my suggestion is SAVE WHAT YOU CAN, REFORMAT YOUR HARD DRIVE, AND CLEAN INSTALL 10.8. Anything less will take you back to the days of runing a conflict extension manager, ala, System 9. Have fun.

for now just relaunch finder and resume your other programms...hopfully apple will fix this soon

I called Applecare on this and the best thing to do is a soft boot which turns off third party apps and resets everything in the kernels. Once I did the procedure below it all worked fine.

Shutdown your computer > turn it back on by the power button and immediately hold down the shift key > keep holding it until you get the apple symbol and the spinning processing wheel > once your iMac is back up you'll notice a red "soft boot" in the upper right > then restart your iMac as you would normally and all should come up correctly.

Don't worry if it take s a long time to come back up. It took my iMac about 5-6 minutes before I got it all up again.

I tested the system running iTunes and Photoshop and iPhoto all open and it has worked just fine with no issues. And the system is running faster.

Good luck! 🙂

Somawise wrote:

I called Applecare on this and the best thing to do is a soft boot which turns off third party apps and resets everything in the kernels.

You mean a Safe boot, not a Soft boot (which is a normal restart)

Oops, yes...sorry! :)

It's explained by Apple here…

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455

It clears many caches, so if the problem reappears you know it didn't really 'fix' anything.

Hi All.

I started following this discussion shortly after I received my brand new Macbook Pro 13" Retina laptop with 16 gigs of RAM that came with Mavericks installed. I began encountering the dreaded "System has run out of Application Memory" problem on a daily basis with very few applications open (usually just Mac Mail, Chrome and Activity Monitor). I had transferred my applications, documents, etc. from a 2008 Macbook Pro that was running Lion using TIme Machine. After reading Drew Reece's responses to several other forum members, I got rid of lots of applications, etc. that I was not using a regular basis. The thing that seemed to make the difference to me was removing MacKeeper from my system. Since then, I have not had any problems. It's been about 2 weeks and I am keeping my fingers crossed that this has, indeed, solved the problem.

I hope this information helps someone else and I would like to thank Drew for helping me.

Happy Holidays.

Since updating to 10.9.1, I have had no problems.

Still happening on my dad's iMac with 10.9.1. On my new rMBP I havent had a single problem, and thats with using migration assistant to migrate my old MBP data over. Hopefully Apple comes up with a fix soon, having to restart every 2 min is rediculous. Starting to feel like a PC.