Q: Your System has Run out of Application memory

HP's software has been mentioned elsewhere

https://discussions.apple.com/message/23958939#23958939

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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.

@ Christopher Liedke, Create a new thread with your Dad's EtreCheck report. It's clear the machine isn't running correctly, so you should look at what is running.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Apple updates won't fix any issues with 3rd party software.

@Roberta L, thanks & seasons greetings to you.

Thanks a lot Rubenmera.

Stopping a process through the Terminal is very simple and it did the trick —I forgot the exact name, it was Finder Web something. Was it the result of this, but other processes (Ms Word) immediately reduced their needs and the machine is now cruising. Till next time...

2010 MacMini, 8GB and Mavericks.

for my part, as read in another post, i reseted all my accounts on calendar and set them up again. it works perfectly now. i of course tried all the reset, diagnostics tools of mac but nothing changed. i even reinstalled mac OS mavericks and nothing better. the only good tips for my case was to reset accounts. it's very easy and quick.

I collected my 13" macbook pro 16gig 2.8 i7 512Gb yesterday and updated to 10.9.1. So far I haven't installed any third-party applications except Spotify. This morning I open messages, safari, system preferences and itunes and I get the same Your System has Run out of Application memory error.

Very disappointing :(. I dont know what is going to happen if I install Parallels and Windows 7 today.

Collected from where? Is this a new system or has it been serviced or something else? I'm assuming you took it to an Apple store because of this issue?

Clearly it's not correct behaviour. Document it (log every occurence, note what you were doing & reboot between failures) and contact with the info Apple if you have warranty or Apple care.

Whilst you have no additional applications on it can you look in Activity Monitor (inside the Utilities folder) & see which process consumes all the memory? You will need to select the option to show all processes.

It may be worth removing Spotify just in case that is the issue, I don't think it does much in the background, but it's been a while since I used it.