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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

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Jan 21, 2014 3:57 PM in response to Csound1

As far as I remember the pressure colour turns to yellowish-red .... but I am not quite sure. Exactly what you say is said in all those support communities.... one shouldn't worry and it's perfectly fine when the system uses the ram. Well no, it isn't. It surely is of no use when with two or three Apps open the whole amount of 12GB Ram are used and the file cache is full.


I don't care how much ram is used or free as long as my computer works but exactly that it doesn't. It stops responding and sets all open Apps to a halt. (Pause) Something must be wrong then.

Jan 21, 2014 4:12 PM in response to Csound1

Did you read my question? 🙂 I have 12GB of RAM installed and when firefox or google chrome (with 2-3 tabs open) plus thunderbird is open and maybe I listen to some music the system shouldn't come to a halt because of the lack of RAM? Don't you think?


Something must be wrong there. It seems the file cache runs full...


What does the SystemUIserver do?..... It's always this process stopping the system.

Jan 21, 2014 4:20 PM in response to reveur0907

If speed is your problem, i suspect its not RAM related.


If RAM use bloat is your problem, you likely have a problem with your install of 10.9


I have one machine with 4GB and it runs fine -= green, fast, etc.


Look for the real problem.


Under porperly functioning circumstances 10.9 utilizes RAM more efficiently than previous systems. So your problem is a misbehaving system or apps


G

Jan 21, 2014 4:39 PM in response to Barney-15E

hey Barney....


that's exactly what I did.... the activity monitor shows that it's the systemuiserver in combination with a kernel_task going nuts..... I have also read about third-party-software causing this problem when in the menu bar.... but I don't have any.... at least not to my knowledge....


the bluetooth symbol, the wifi sign, the volume control and the clock are in my menu bar.... it's all Apple applications...... so..... that's why I am helpless.....

Maverick eats up ALL Ram installed and knocks out the system

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