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Maverick eats up ALL Ram installed and knocks out the system

Hello dear support community,

I give up!!

I have searched now for quite a while all the German and English language support communities and boards to find a solution for my problem, but all I found was that "Mavericks utilizes RAM highly efficiently".... well.... in my case it doesn't.

I installes OS X Mavericks when it was released via the Appstore and I had Lion and Mountain Lion "under it". Everything seemed fine at the beginning, but then it started happening that all open Apps were on halt/pause and the system didn't respond any further. I have 12GB of RAM installed and 11,99 GB of it are used. Sometimes I still have the chance to kill the SystemUIServer process which seems to grab all that RAM, mostly all I can do is to brutally hut down the system by pushing the power button long enough.....

I really wanted to avoid it, but I decided to cleanly install Mavericks again because efficiently working with this machine is no longer possible. So I installed Maverics from the scratch and from my Time Machine backup i manually got my Documents, Music, Videos and Photos... no Library, no preferences nothing. All the rest of the Apps got a completely new install. I didn't want to migrate the problem.

Well... here I am... the same problem occurs again on a daily basis. Please..... does anyone know what to do? Is there any chance of fixing my computer? The hardware seems to be perfectly fine....(I hope so.... 3 new panels and 2 new Superdrives.... and the last superdrive doesn't work anymore but Apple refused to repair it) .... so it should be a software problem since it started only after the installation of Mavericks.

Georg

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Jan 21, 2014 3:31 PM

70 replies

Csound1

Level 9

59,973 points

Jan 25, 2014 6:38 AM in response to reveur0907

reveur0907 wrote:

You're mocking me right?.... You keep telling me everything is fine with my Mac and I can open new Apps just because this pressure seems ok..... Are you sitting at my computer or am I sitting here? If you don't want to help me, that is pretty fine.... I didn't ask you personally for your opinion. Right from the very start folks like you and Csound keep telling me that I don't have a problem. I DO HAVE A PROBLEM..... My system crashes.....

I told you to take your Mac to an Apple Store as you are not prepared to do any troubleshooting for yourself.

Can you manage that at least?

mricect

Level 1

4 points

Jan 28, 2014 10:18 AM in response to reveur0907

This thread is bananas...

Mar 8, 2014 6:32 AM in response to reveur0907

Thought I might just add my six eggs into the basket.

I also suffer this "SystemUIServer" ram problem and have done since 10.8.x - The most recent problem was about half hour ago when I was using 71gb of virtual ram!

Coincidently I always seem to get it after a resume from sleep/hibernate.

After having a read of the thread, I have similar programs to this guy... Teamviewer, Virtualbox and Dropbox all on my system. I do however use Chromium rather than Chrome.

So the culprit is one of those four apps and something it has loaded in the background.

I have cleared the plist files on multiple occasions but this never seems to work for long.

So reveur0907 I feel your pain dude.

Csound1

Level 9

59,973 points

Mar 8, 2014 6:38 AM in response to AndrewMurphy

Reboot into Safe Mode and test again.

Csound1

Level 9

59,973 points

Mar 8, 2014 6:44 AM in response to AndrewMurphy

One more thing, when you sleep the Mac is VBox running, and how large is the VBox VM file?

Mar 8, 2014 6:49 AM in response to Csound1

I always shut Virtualbox down when I have finished with it, and never put the computer to sleep with it running.

Csound1

Level 9

59,973 points

Mar 8, 2014 6:56 AM in response to AndrewMurphy

Did you test in Safe Mode yet?

Mar 8, 2014 7:21 AM in response to Csound1

What exactly is Safemode going to tell me? It's not going to load any of the kexts/drivers or anything related to these applications.... let alone is it going to cause SystemUIserver to fail.

I kill the process off, it restarts, its fine for a few days, maybe a couple of weeks if its feeling nice then it will suddenly start eating ram again until I kill it.

I work in the IT field supporting Mac/PC so I understand technical the stuff very well 😉... yet I haven't got my head around what is causing this issue!

Csound1

Level 9

59,973 points

Mar 8, 2014 7:23 AM in response to AndrewMurphy

As you clearly understand that this is connected to some software item that is being loaded in your main user account I will leave it to you to selectively unload them until you find the problem item.

Good luck.

Lexiepex

Level 6

14,102 points

Mar 8, 2014 7:46 AM in response to AndrewMurphy

In the safe mode omly the most basic software will be loaded.

But we already have the suspicion that the most probable is a user software, thus if you make the screenshots that I asked, maybe already we can see what it is.

Also I would like to get the list of softwares that are in the Users&Groups/LoginItems.

Maverick eats up ALL Ram installed and knocks out the system