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Q: System is running our of application memory after yosemite install

Using a high end Mac Book Pro LATE 2013. 16GB ram. No programs running except MAIL. Just updated to YOSEMITE and getting the error "Your system has run out of application memory". This make no sense, I've rebooted several times, opened mail and getting the same error message. NO OTHER PROGRAMS ARE RUNNING.

MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2 GHz), OS X Yosemite (10.10), 16 GB ram

Posted on Oct 20, 2014 4:48 PM

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  • by Vince Egan,

    Vince Egan Vince Egan Oct 23, 2014 9:34 AM in response to Vince Egan
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    Oct 23, 2014 9:34 AM in response to Vince Egan

    dang it. It went well yesterday and then today in the middle of an important email reply I once again received the dreaded "out of memory" window. The activity Monitor showed that once again Mail had climbed to over 70GB. Now I compose in a text editor then cut and paste. This needs to be fixed but how? Its bringing back memories of the old "Conflict Catcher " days.

     

    I eliminated all but the essential start up items reset PRAM and now will empty mail trash to see what the heck is happening.

     

    Is anyone finding any joy out there on this? Still only seems to be happening on my iMac not my MBA.

     

    iMac 27" Mid 2011 2.7 Ghz Intel Core15 32GB 1333 Mhz DDR3 Memory Yosemite 10.10

    AND not on my MBA:

    MBA 13" 13" mid 2012 2 Ghz Intel core i7 8GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 Yosemite 10.10 memory from activity monitor 141.5mb and rather steady

  • by onedrmom,

    onedrmom onedrmom Oct 23, 2014 9:03 PM in response to joetester
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    Oct 23, 2014 9:03 PM in response to joetester

    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!

  • by Vince Egan,

    Vince Egan Vince Egan Oct 24, 2014 7:11 AM in response to onedrmom
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    Oct 24, 2014 7:11 AM in response to onedrmom

    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!

  • by joshua2287,

    joshua2287 joshua2287 Oct 24, 2014 2:50 PM in response to joetester
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    Oct 24, 2014 2:50 PM in response to joetester

    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.

  • by Bflolover,

    Bflolover Bflolover Oct 27, 2014 9:14 AM in response to joetester
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    Oct 27, 2014 9:14 AM in response to joetester

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

  • by MAC_NOLA,

    MAC_NOLA MAC_NOLA Oct 27, 2014 10:29 AM in response to joetester
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    Oct 27, 2014 10:29 AM in response to joetester

    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.

  • by onedrmom,

    onedrmom onedrmom Oct 27, 2014 4:19 PM in response to Vince Egan
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    Oct 27, 2014 4:19 PM in response to Vince Egan

    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

  • by DERISCO,

    DERISCO DERISCO Oct 29, 2014 7:30 AM in response to onedrmom
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    Oct 29, 2014 7:30 AM in response to onedrmom

    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

  • by hazardtown,

    hazardtown hazardtown Oct 29, 2014 4:05 PM in response to joetester
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    Oct 29, 2014 4:05 PM in response to joetester

    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)

  • by hazardtown,

    hazardtown hazardtown Oct 29, 2014 4:07 PM in response to Vince Egan
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    Oct 29, 2014 4:07 PM in response to Vince Egan

    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.

  • by aaustin69,

    aaustin69 aaustin69 Oct 29, 2014 7:50 PM in response to hazardtown
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    Oct 29, 2014 7:50 PM in response to hazardtown

    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.

  • by nctechnologeek,

    nctechnologeek nctechnologeek Oct 29, 2014 10:12 PM in response to joetester
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    Oct 29, 2014 10:12 PM in response to joetester

    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.

  • by matthew o-b,

    matthew o-b matthew o-b Oct 30, 2014 6:10 AM in response to nctechnologeek
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    Oct 30, 2014 6:10 AM in response to nctechnologeek

    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!

  • by mdsalemi,

    mdsalemi mdsalemi Oct 31, 2014 5:48 AM in response to joetester
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    Oct 31, 2014 5:48 AM in response to joetester

    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?

  • by Bflolover,

    Bflolover Bflolover Oct 31, 2014 5:52 AM in response to joetester
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    Oct 31, 2014 5:52 AM in response to joetester

    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*

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