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Mavericks making my computer run out of memory

Ever since i updated to mavericks my computer has become slower than when i was on mountain lion... For instance i just restarted my iMac this morning and just about 30 min ago i got down to 0MB free ram, User uploaded file as you can see here...

And this has happened about 5 times since ive had mavericks and the only way to fix it is by restarting. Other things like sleep and wake takes forever and when im gaming it makes me get major lag spikes... Im on a 21" mid 2011 iMac with 8GB ram.

Posted on Nov 3, 2013 7:50 PM

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Nov 13, 2013 8:41 PM in response to ltaa09

Finally was able to capture this in that application while this was happening... Heres the results:



Hardware Information:

iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)

iMac - model: iMac12,1

1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores

8 GB RAM


Video Information:

AMD Radeon HD 6770M - VRAM: 512 MB


Audio Plug-ins:

BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0

AirPlay: Version: 1.9

AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0

iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3


System Software:

OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 1 day 4:43:41


Disk Information:

WDC WD1001FALS-403AA0 disk0 : (1 TB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 999.35 GB (949.17 GB free)

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


HL-DT-STDVDRW GA32N


USB Information:

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)


Western Digital External HDD 250.06 GB

EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Time Machine Backup (disk1s2) /Volumes/Time Machine Backup: 249.72 GB (177.53 GB free)


Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller


Apple Inc. iPhone


Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver


Apple Internal Memory Card Reader


FireWire Information:


Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus


Kernel Extensions:


Problem System Launch Daemons:

[failed] com.apple.AOSNotificationOSX.plist

[failed] com.apple.softwareupdated.plist

[failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist


Problem System Launch Agents:


Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[not loaded] com.freemacsoft.appcleanerd.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

[loaded] com.MacServe.ivpnHelper.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist


Launch Agents:

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist


User Launch Agents:


User Login Items:

iTunesHelper

Music Manager


3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player

MusicManager


Internet Plug-ins:

Default Browser.plugin

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

Silverlight.plugin


User Internet Plug-ins:

Picasa.plugin


Bad Fonts:

None


Time Machine:

Auto backup: YES

Volumes being backed up:

Macintosh HD: Disk size: 999.35 GB Disk used: 50.17 GB

Destinations:

Time Machine Backup [Local] (Last used)

Total size: 249.72 GB

Total number of backups: 38

Oldest backup: 2013-09-01 22:06:16 +0000

Last backup: 2013-11-14 03:18:45 +0000

Size of backup disk: Adequate

Backup size 249.72 GB > (Disk used 50.17 GB X 3)


Top Processes by CPU:

90% SystemUIServer

2% WindowServer

1% EtreCheck

0% mds_stores

0% hidd

0% Xcode

0% mds

0% debugserver

0% PluginProcess

0% com.apple.WebKit.Networking


Top Processes by Memory:

1.64 GB SystemUIServer

74 MB Xcode

33 MB SpringBoard

16 MB Fabrics

16 MB PluginProcess

16 MB itunesstored

16 MB assetsd

16 MB Interface Builder Cocoa Touch Tool

15 MB EtreCheck

8 MB MobileGestaltHelper


Virtual Memory Statistics:

17 MB Free RAM

1.09 GB Active RAM

1.09 GB Inactive RAM

1.28 GB Wired RAM

2.74 GB Page-ins

161 MB Page-outs






and yes i did remove the App Cleaner application and the VPN..... Could barely use my computer in fact could barely run this test. So please tell me whats wrong with my computer....? Because obviously these "junk software" im using which i removed are not causing the problem.. So go on and tell me why its happening....

Nov 13, 2013 9:15 PM in response to ltaa09

Thanks for the update ltaa09 but my earlier response has not changed:


John Galt wrote:


FreeMacSoft's AppCleaner is installed on your Mac. Uninstall it according to its documentation and ensure all its remnants are completely eradicated from your system.


Such "cleaning" apps can do nothing beneficial and can only cause the kind of misery you're experiencing. If your Mac does not perform normally after uninstalling them, you must consider the possibility of system corruption that can only be rectified by reinstalling OS X, restoring from a backup, or completely erasing your system and rebuilding it from the ground up.

AppCleaner remains installed. You must also address the effects of having used it.


Installing junk such as that modifies OS X in a manner that will result in a Mac that cannot perform as designed.

Nov 13, 2013 9:26 PM in response to John Galt

Anyway's besides this which i did uninstall if you were to look at the report youd find that almost all the CPU cycles and the ram are being taken up by: SystemUIServer which is a SYSTEM process not a application... This application has literally nothing to do with this issue.... This certain application which once again i removed doesnt alter the system files which your clearly not understanding and has nothing to do with this at all as i know all the processes it does and none of them affect any other files than the ones i removed... So saying this if i were to do a wipe and reinstall in the recovery partition this issue would most likely still occur as ive done this... This is the only thing that people tell me to do to fix these issues and clearly according to a ton of people that its the only way to fix issues which is incorrect...

Nov 13, 2013 10:09 PM in response to pmcnano

No this happens out of no where and since ive had mavericks its happend 5 times and ive had mavericks since the day it launched. the first few times it happend was when i was doing light browser work in chrome the other few times is when i was doing things in xcode or photoshop or things like that but light wieght not heavy processing. and this builds on top of each other so say if i dont restart my computer tonight and just keep using it for like 5 days without a restart the ram and CPU slowly runs out until this happens.

Mavericks making my computer run out of memory

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