System is running our of application memory after yosemite install

This has been happening on both Macs I updated. I have been working with Level 2 support trying different things...but, alas, it happened after we spent over an hour making adjustments. The good thing is that they have received a number of complaints about this and are working on it. The bad thing is it looks like it partitioned me newest computer and although I have about 70% of memory free, I seems to querying the other portion of the partition and finding virtually no memory there.

Please keep calling in and complaining o they'll expedite a solution. I am having a **** of a time working each day because I have to stop and reboot the computer to limp through until the next error pops up!

this is some good news. At least it is finally recognized. I have found that when Mail fills up I can just quit mail and reopen. Voila! Still it only happens on iMac not MBA. How can you tell if it has been partitioned? It doesn't show that in DiscU.

Thanks for updated information. We will keep hoping!

I too am having the same issue with;

Yosemite 10.10

MBP Early 2011 13"

8GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Intel HD Graphics 512 MB

250 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD

I never had this issue with Maverick. All I have installed is strictly programs Native Instruments software and Chrome Browser with Cubase DAW. I don't run anything in the background as I am big on clearing RAM and constantly performing maintenance routine clean ups. I clear my cache files etc... I just like having my systems run smooth and fast and efficiently. This is becoming annoying because I was doing some work in Maschine 2.0 and my latency became an issue for the first time ever!!! I have always been able to get by 8 GB RAM but i think if I upped to 16 GB ill still have this issue. I mean I know I don't run hardly anything. My storage capacity is 248.86 GB and I still have 222.94 GB free. Apple FIX THIS. I've defended you guys and still do.. don't make me eat my words. iOS 8 is by far the buggiest OS I've dealt with since iOS has been released also Yosemite is secretly becoming a resource hoarder. I will take consideration apps haven't updated to be welcome in Yosemite, but I've gotten an email from Native Instruments saying they passed all Yosemite OS checks and everything should be compatible. Thats all I use my MBP for is music production. I don't even surf the net on my MBP, as thats what my iPhone and iPad are for. File Cache has gotten bigger as well. Maverick used to be 200 MB now its 1.21 GB give or take 200 MB over 1GB App Memory climbs over long periods of idle when NOTHING is open.

I hope you guys fix this. PRAM didn't work btw.

Yep. Same issue - started happening right after I upgraded to Yosemite. I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013).

I am having this issue on a 2009 8-core Mac pro with 48 GB ram. I run System Indicator continuously and never get spikes higher than 8% memory usage when this mail error happens. It has been happening daily since the Yosemite upgrade. I have 2- 2013 rMBP with 16 gb ram that have not had the error once. Also have a 2010 6-core MP still running Mavericks with 32 GB ram, not one issue there. Silly me I jumped to Yosemite to fix a Mavericks mail issue with godaddy's imap that was never resolved. Hopefully a patch happens but it just seems like this a problem with older macs, maybe older efi firmware? I don't think it is actually using the memory as my system indicator and activity monitor do not report it.

Just got an email fro the Level 2 tech working on my problem. Apple is very aware of the problem and working on a fix. Not sure how fast...but they are working on it. Just an FYI

Having the same issues posted under Mail memory leak just as a PRAM reset don't know if that's helped the only thing I've done to make it livable is turn off iCloud drive. Since I've done that I've only run out of memory 3 times. I did report to Apple support and called AppleCare.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)

2.6 GHz Intel Core i7

16 Gig Ram

1 TB SSD

Dean Allen

I have exactly the same problem. Even when running only Mail.

I have reset my PRAM.

I then looked at Activity Monitor and saw CRASH PLAN taking up 49% of memory/activity. I have always hated the back up apps that run automatically in the background. I "Quit" Crash Plan and the activity on Crash Plan in ActMon is still the same, at 45%. I want to get rid of Crash Plan 100%, forever, I never need it anyways I do manualy Back ups weekly anyways via Time Machine.

The only other issue could be automatic running of DropBox but I don't see excessive activity on that one.

Dale - Los Angeles, CA

(Fast latest Mac Laptop Pro, 16ram...etc)

yes this happens to me, Mail "pauses" and can't resume, at that same time usually, "when I am composing emails and before I hit send"

dale.

Try this:

Uncheck the 'Store draft messages on the server' in the account settings for all email accounts, as well as uncheck the 'Store sent and junk messages on the server'.

I did this 48 hours ago and have not had any memory issues/crashes since. I realize it still may be too early to know for sure if this was the fix, but wanted to share this information.

Anyone here following this thread using GoDaddy IMAP accounts in Mail.app? If so, review my other post on another memory leak thread for a potential solution... Re: Yosemite OS 10.10 Mail Memory Leak... check your IMAP incoming port and use of SSL. After the upgrade to Yosemite, the incoming port was reverted back to port 143 even though the 'Use SSL' checkbox remain checked. I changed the port back to port 993, as it was on Mavericks before the upgrade. So far stable and no more wild memory usage by Mail.app after about 6 hours. Fingers crossed.

I'm using a GoDaddy IMAP account in my Mail app and noticed the 143 port switcheroo the Yosemite update did. Switched it back to port 993 with SSL checked (it's always been checked) and will be checking my progress with this fix.

Fingers crossed as well that it does the trick.

Thanks for posting!

Reading all the posts here, this is a REAL problem, it's a HUGE problem, and it needs to be FIXED NOW. Hello, Apple?

I have a MacPro Mid-2010 with 16GB Ram, 8 core, and plenty of disk storage. In 4 years of operation, NEVER had an OS X crash--rock steady reliability with Lion. Even when I had 8GB of RAM a couple of years ago, I could be multi-tasking up the yin-yang with video processing, music downloads, graphics processing all happening happily at the same time without so much as a missed byte.

Then this mail thing started happening the other day. Yes, I've reinstalled Yosemite, yes, I've done the system controller and PRAM restores. That did nothing as it isn't the problem. MAIL is the problem.

I unfortunately would NOT know about this except I moved some mail to Apple Mail, because Outlook for Mac 2011 will NOT hold a connection to an IMAP server. When I set it up, it's all OK, passwords, servers all connect and work fine. Then it disconnects, and won't reconnect without deleting the account and starting over. That of course is not a workable solution...onto Apple Mail and now this! Do I wait for a fix or go to some other client like Eurora or things I have yet to discover?

Apple, hello? Some help here please?

I also use the GoDaddy IMAP account in my Mail app. The port was switched back to port 143 by the Yosemite update. However, I switched it back to port 993 with SSL checked and I still had the application memory issue pop up yesterday.

*sigh*

Well, I'm pretty disappointed. I can't live with this extremely "Microsoft Windows-like" behavior. In the past few years, the ONLY things that ever crashed were versions of MS Office (not surprisingly) or on more rare occasions, some Adobe Products like Photoshop, etc. When they crashed, they seemingly restarted with nothing lost. They were ONLY app crashes and didn't take down the OS. Lion 10.7.5 was as steady as the Rock of Gibraltar.

THIS mail issue takes down the computer and the OS. Forced restarts don't work. Accessing the Apple menu doesn't work, so you can't even get to the restart or turn off. All you get is the colorful pinwheel circling around. These suggestions that people are making (reinstall OS, PRAM, system controller) simply don't work, since they are not the problem. The only way to recover from one of these crashes is holding the power button until it forced the power off. That's a very PC like, Windows like solution I thought I gave up.

If I discovered this issue in a matter of days after upgrading to Yosemite, why on earth didn't Apple or any of the beta or pre-release testers? The more I search the more I realize how prevalent this problem is. I'm truly dumbfounded now as how this thing was given the go on release. Jobs would have had someones head on this one, maybe more. What's today's news about Apple? Tim Cook is gay. Who cares!

I am going to downgrade back to Lion today as I cannot live with my computer crashing every time I start mail and run it for a few minutes. When Apple gets its *&^% together on this one I might be back to Yosemite 2.0, but Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave. Giving up Yosemite means giving up the nice iCloud drive I was using and I'll be forced to go back to Google drive too.

*sigh* and *ugh* indeed!