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Q: Your System has Run out of Application memory

I upgraded to Mavericks from Mountain Lion, and I have been getting the error message "Your System has Run out of Application memory", and I am forced to restart the computer to be able to keep working.

 

I have been monitoring the Activity Monitor and I have not found a process that is increasing the amount of memory used. I have seen a proliferation of processes.

 

I have an iMac 27-inch, Late 2012 with a 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7 and 24 GB 1600 MHz DDR3.


iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 27-inch Late 2012; 3.4 GHz i7; 24GB

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 7:33 PM

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  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Apr 5, 2014 1:16 PM in response to KARX
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    Apr 5, 2014 1:16 PM in response to KARX

    KARX wrote:

     

    Yes, you're right I'm the first who mentioned iMovie in this thread.

    No, I don't think I'll get better attention by creating my own thread, because nobody, but only Apple can help me in this situation. It's a deep core technology.

    If that is true you are in the wrong place. Apple only have a few 'community support staff' (they have Apple logos in thier posts with black headers), they never post to any thread that isn't simple or short. It's claimed Apple empolyees don't read these threads, even if they do there never seems to be any posts from Apple directly and there are rules about what employees can post here.

     

    KARX wrote:

     

    Anyway Compressed Memory is very good technology. It really works! iMovie 10.0.2 in Mac OS 10.9 is compressing 1.5 times faster the same video files than iMovie 9.0.9 under Mac OS 10.8!

    I'm afraid you have misunderstood the RAM compression - it has nothing to do with video compression. The speedup you are seeing is because of other changes in the OS & iMovie. RAM compression uses a very different algorithm to video compression.

     

     

    KARX wrote:

    There is only one hope - update of Mavericks from Apple. Until that, I cannot use iMovie anymore.

    Apple is the only hope?

     

    You could take your Mac to an Apple Store or call Applecare.

    The store may be able to isolate the issue, there is a chance that they will reinstall the OS. This is something you can do yourself.

     

    You could boot into Safe mode to see what happens when the third party extensions are off.

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

     

    You could try working inside a new user account to see if your login items or user background jobs are breaking the OS.

     

    You can also run EtreCheck to see if you have any old items running inside the system.

     

    Etresoft offer the same advice that I keep telling people on here…

    http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck_story

     

    It looks complex but the reality is that you pick the 'system altering items', remove or update them. If you have no third party apps then it must be Apple's fault but if you don't look at what is installed you are in no position to assign to blame anyone.

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Apr 5, 2014 1:40 PM in response to Csound1
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    Apr 5, 2014 1:40 PM in response to Csound1

    Csound1 wrote:

     

    I read it as though you were using it as an example of problems, but I saw the post as the opposite, problems avoided with a little preparation. And a successful installation of OSX.

     

    I'm not sure I consider Migration Assistant as part of any careful updgrade preparation.

     

    It's a firehose that brings over too much if you just want some apps. Coming from a PPC Mac should at least allow the OS to filter out binaries that don't work, even if it does a bad job a lot of apps will just die & not ruin the OS like older Intel code is doing.

  • by darryl-1,

    darryl-1 darryl-1 Apr 6, 2014 9:27 PM in response to Drew Reece
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    Apr 6, 2014 9:27 PM in response to Drew Reece

    Yes I turned off Kasparski a few days ago to test.

    After reading the link I on hard disk  speed inner & outer I have a 1 terrabit to install on hand. I was going to last fall but I found over 100 gig of data that I got rid of. Mind you I had no problem and everything was fast, this is before Mavericks. Is there any trusted software that would remove, startup items and other items not used. This is all very interesting but its hard to get the time needed to work it out. But you have shed some light on things I was not aware of? Thanks Darryl

  • by GCCE,

    GCCE GCCE Apr 10, 2014 7:47 AM in response to REPG
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    Apr 10, 2014 7:47 AM in response to REPG

    I have been having the same issue, all of a sudden after 2 years of no issues. Turns out my issue was the address book synch, I have 5 email accounts all synched to the contact book. It grabbed 26 gig of memmory and locked me up. I turned off all the synch except to my mac account and it did not freeze up overnight so it appears the problem is solved. Might not be everybodys problem but I did reinstall Maverick and that did not solve the problem.

  • by KARX,

    KARX KARX Apr 11, 2014 6:19 AM in response to KARX
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    Apr 11, 2014 6:19 AM in response to KARX

    I'm very happy to say that today's iMovie 10.0.3 update has actually solved all my problems!

     

     

    I don't have “Your System has Run out of Application memory” message anymore!

     

     

    To be sure it is working, I made it twice transcoding FULL HD -> HD 15 m., and it worked without any problems! I'm impressed about the speed of transcoding! Again, I want to say that iMovie 10.0.3 in Mac OS 10.9 is compressing 1.5 times faster the same video files than iMovie 9.0.9 under Mac OS 10.8!

     

     

    Now I can sign in to my YouTube account through iMovie for sharing!

    The following message appears "Your password is correct, but we no longer support signing in with YouTube userename. Please enter your Google account email address (...) to sign in."

     

     

    I've made the right choice to force myself to wait for an update, not to go to the shop to buy 16GB of very expensive memory, no reinstalls/removes/cleanings, no panic, no crying, do nothing, just waiting...

     

     

    And here it is a "magical" update iMovie 10.0.3 that fixed it all! Thank you Apple! Thank You very much!

  • by 907nomad,

    907nomad 907nomad Apr 11, 2014 2:38 PM in response to KARX
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    Apr 11, 2014 2:38 PM in response to KARX

    Karx-

     

    You stated Mac OS 10.9. Do you have the latest update10.9.2? and what about Aperture? what version are you running in that? Were you running the latest updates before the new iMovie 10.0.3?

     

    Just wondering if I should jump in and the all the updates again....

     

    Thanks for you input and congrats! I'm actually jealous but very happy for you.

  • by KARX,

    KARX KARX Apr 11, 2014 4:12 PM in response to 907nomad
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    Apr 11, 2014 4:12 PM in response to 907nomad

    Hi!

    Yes, I have Mac OS 10.9.2. I'm not using Aperture. I was running Mac OS 10.9.2 and iMovie 10.0.2 - all the latest updates before iMovie 10.0.3.

     

    The latest update iMovie 10.0.3 really fixed all my problems, including Your System has Run out of Application memory” message.

     

    Everything is woking normal now! Thanks to Apple!

  • by jamessawle@manxdesigns.im,

    jamessawle@manxdesigns.im jamessawle@manxdesigns.im Apr 14, 2014 10:43 AM in response to REPG
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    Apr 14, 2014 10:43 AM in response to REPG

    We have the same problem at work and at home, and with all the systems that are running Mavericks. All of our systems have 64Gb RAM and are running under either 10.9.0 or 10.9.2 and all are lately getting the message up stating that they have run out of application memory, we have just seen this today on two new Mac Pro's which we had delivered last week. we thought at first that we had picked up something dodgy on the web, but it has been occurring also on systems not attached to the Internet or internal network at all. We see a working system starting with 58Gb of free RAM go to completely non-responsive and saying less than 200Mb of available RAM in under 2 minutes..

     

    The only solution that we have found is to ditch Mavericks for 10.8.0 and since doing so we have not seen this re-occur, I think there is something wrong with Mavericks, You would normally expect Microsoft to have all the bugs, but it looks like OSX since the loss of Steve Jobs is starting to loose its quality control standards, I hope that this is just a bug, but for now we are having to slowly go through all our systems at work and downgrade them.

     

    James

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Apr 14, 2014 10:51 AM in response to jamessawle@manxdesigns.im
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    Apr 14, 2014 10:51 AM in response to jamessawle@manxdesigns.im

    If any of my Macs start to behave like your Macs I'll be able to test what is happening. But they don't.

  • by Kenneth Collins1,

    Kenneth Collins1 Kenneth Collins1 Apr 14, 2014 11:19 AM in response to REPG
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    Apr 14, 2014 11:19 AM in response to REPG

    Some people do not have this problem, some have it occasionally (me), and some have it so often the computer is almost unusable. People attribute it to various programs. My theory is that it is part of Mavericks' new memory-management method.

     

    I have noticed that occasionally Apple precipitously cuts off the legs from under professional users. The worst one for me was Pages, After seeing an installation disk for Microsoft Office at the Genius bar, marked for office use, I've determined that Apple does not use its own software.

     

    Apple doesn't use Macs exclusively in their data centers. Quite a lot of their servers are running Windows. If they don't use Macs in their offices, they might not notice the problem.

  • by Harris Miller,

    Harris Miller Harris Miller Apr 20, 2014 10:14 AM in response to REPG
    Level 2 (219 points)
    Mac OS X
    Apr 20, 2014 10:14 AM in response to REPG

    I just started having this problem about 2 weeks ago. After enduring it for a while, & not finding any solutions that worked for me here on the board, I contacted Apple Support. After many suggestions that did not work I was finally connected to a senior advisor. After she saw the info in the attached file she had me remove all the items I had in dashboard. It appears that has solved the problem for me. She did mention that there are some widgets out there that can make this problem come up. Not all of them, of course, but there is no way to determine which of them might cause the problem.

     

    I cannot seem to add the attached file for some reason.The activity monitor showed dashboard as paused & using over 4.5 GB of memory

     

    I wanted to share my experience with everybody in case it will help them as well.

  • by Nicolas Thunder,

    Nicolas Thunder Nicolas Thunder Apr 20, 2014 9:24 PM in response to rubenmera
    Level 1 (5 points)
    Apr 20, 2014 9:24 PM in response to rubenmera

    Do you believe that this a glitch with OSX Mavericks?

    If so,would switching back to Mountain Lion fix this problem?

  • by jamessawle@manxdesigns.im,

    jamessawle@manxdesigns.im jamessawle@manxdesigns.im Apr 21, 2014 2:34 PM in response to Nicolas Thunder
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    Apr 21, 2014 2:34 PM in response to Nicolas Thunder

    We found this to be the case, we did try apple supple, but this was worse than useless and no help at all, we still have 2 systems running mavdricks at work, but have not found a solution for what is eating the memory. but all the systems are now running mountain lion which is OK for us as we only use them for Maya and Photoshop.

  • by natie,

    natie natie Apr 22, 2014 3:50 AM in response to REPG
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    Apr 22, 2014 3:50 AM in response to REPG

    Hardware Information:

              MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)

              MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1

              1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores

              4 GB RAM

     

    Video Information:

              Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB

     

    System Software:

              OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Uptime: 0 days 0:31:14

     

    Disk Information:

              TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)

                        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

                        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (116.22 GB free)

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

     

              OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5970H 

     

    USB Information:

              Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

     

              Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

                        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

     

              Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

     

              Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

     

    FireWire Information:

     

    Thunderbolt Information:

              Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

     

    Configuration files:

              /etc/hosts - Count: 52

     

    Kernel Extensions:

              com.spotflux.Spotflux.tun          (1.0)

     

    Launch Daemons:

              [System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [System] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [System] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [System] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [System] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [System] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [System] com.spotflux.Spotflux.tun.plist 3rd-Party support link

     

    Launch Agents:

              [System] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [System] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [System] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [System] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link

     

    User Launch Agents:

              [not loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [not loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.diskSpaceWatcher.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [not loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.scheduledScan.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [not loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.trashWatcher.plist 3rd-Party support link

              [not loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist 3rd-Party support link

     

    User Login Items:

              iTunesHelper

              EyeTV Helper

              Google Drive

              Dropbox

              Canon IJ Network Scanner Selector EX

     

    Internet Plug-ins:

              Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.0.0.126   - SDK 10.8 3rd-Party support link

              JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 45 Outdated! Update

              EPPEX Plugin: Version: 3.0.5.0 3rd-Party support link

              Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9

              QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

              o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.2.4.18058 3rd-Party support link

              SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link

              googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.2.4.18058 3rd-Party support link

              Silverlight: Version: 5.0.61118.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link

              DirectorShockwave: Version: 12.1.0r150 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link

              iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8

     

    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

     

    3rd Party Preference Panes:

              DivX  3rd-Party support link

              Flash Player  3rd-Party support link

              Flip4Mac WMV  3rd-Party support link

              Growl  3rd-Party support link

              Java  3rd-Party support link

     

    Old Applications:

              /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office

                        Microsoft Graph:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Database Utility:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Office Reminders:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Upload Center:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        My Day:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        SyncServicesAgent:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Open XML for Excel:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Alerts Daemon:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Database Daemon:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Chart Converter:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Clip Gallery:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

              Microsoft AutoUpdate:          Version: 2.3.6 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link

                        /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app

              /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011

                        Microsoft PowerPoint:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Excel:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Outlook:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Word:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Document Connection:          Version: 14.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

              /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MERP2.0

                        Microsoft Error Reporting:          Version: 2.2.9 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link

                        Microsoft Ship Asserts:          Version: 1.1.4 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link

              SLLauncher:          Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Silverlight/OutOfBrowser/SLLauncher.app

              Solver:          Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

                        /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Complementos/Solver.app

     

    Time Machine:

              Time Machine not configured!

     

    Top Processes by CPU:

                   3%          WindowServer

                   2%          EtreCheck

                   0%          Google Chrome

                   0%          Google Drive

                   0%          coreservicesd

     

    Top Processes by Memory:

              139 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent

              102 MB          Google Chrome

              90 MB          Google Drive

              74 MB          Dropbox

              64 MB          Google Chrome Helper

     

    Virtual Memory Information:

              1.30 GB          Free RAM

              1.40 GB          Active RAM

              329 MB          Inactive RAM

              994 MB          Wired RAM

              419 MB          Page-ins

              0 B          Page-outs

     

    Hello! I've kinda read the whole thread, but I don't seem to find the explanation. I don't use a lot the app Mail nor iCal and Im'm getting the "out of memory" dialogue window. It's like the third time it happens.

    Today I was using Chrome, Excel, Word and Finder.

     

    Can someone help me?

     

    I would appreciate it

  • by Harris Miller,

    Harris Miller Harris Miller Apr 22, 2014 6:04 AM in response to natie
    Level 2 (219 points)
    Mac OS X
    Apr 22, 2014 6:04 AM in response to natie

    Your "activity monitor" information is much more useful in this case than the info you supplied.  Have you tried removing EVERYTHING from your "dashboard", as I describe in my post, to see if that helps?

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