Yosemite memory leak killing me

Thanks for the canned response Linc, but as I said, I came here earlier looking for a solution and found your same post on several other posts, and it has not helped.

But, to be specific: I am running Activity Monitor. No one process, except kernel_task, consistently uses more memory than any other task. I have no HP Printer software (and the link you provide for removing said software no longer works – you might want to correct that before you paste your response again). Wired memory is consistently over a gigabyte. You suggest I ask for guidance in this case. Consider me asking.

As noted, I have 4 GB memory, so I don’t believe additional memory will solve my problem. Running fewer programs simultaneously doesn’t help – I can run out of memory when re-starting with NO active programs.

While I’m not familiar with “the shell”, I have no suspect process so I don’t know how it would help anyway.

I appreciate your generalized comments, but they did not address my specific problem.

Thanks anyway.

Ah Linc,

Another of your canned responses. Nonetheless, I appreciate your attempt to help. My "problem" does not occur at a specific date and time. Rather the available memory just decreases and decreases. A cold boot can drop available memory to 20 mb. I can post the console log from a cold boot, but it's much more than the few dozen lines you suggest (more like 1300), but a few messages from the console log do stand out to my untrained eye:

this one repeated about 100 times - 12/26/14 10:54:16.000 AM kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[157]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)

this-12/26/14 10:54:25.257 AM pboard[200]: Attempt to unlink previous shared memory during startup returned an error. Continuing...

several messages contained comments like these-

12/26/14 10:54:24.667 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.diagnostics_agent) This service is defined to be constantly running and is inherently inefficient.

12/26/14 10:54:24.667 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.dock.fullscreen) The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.

which I assume are normal and there's nothing I can do about them.

Would it help to post the entire list?

Otherwise, where do we go from here?

Linc,

I'm sorry you don't like my "attitude." I've honestly responded to your posts. It's just that reading your posts is like talking to the help desk that always starts by asking me to reboot the unit. While I acknowledge that might solve the majority of users problems, there's no evidence you've actually read my initial post. I sincerely thanked you in both my last posts for your help. I acknowledge that I'm asking for help from others who don't owe me their time or anything else.

But I'm guessing that since you can't actually help me with your canned responses, you choose to go on the offensive and insult me.

And I'd be more than happy to pay for help from somebody who's paid to deal with people like me.

If only I could find someone qualified.

Sorry you're so thin-skinned (and apparently out of canned responses?).

You have a good day now, you hear?

So I apparently have a process (or multiple processes) that allocate virtual memory but fails to free it. This seems to account for my consistent 1 GB+ of Wired Memory. It (4 GB of Memory shrinking to 20 MB or less) happens at a Cold Start with no applications running. I typically run Mail, Outlook, Safari with two or three tabs open – and now Activity Monitor. Memory leaks regularly with only these active apps. Periodically I’ll use MSWord, Excel, iPhoto and iTunes. The leak is neither slower nor faster when these apps are active. If I pay attention to Memory Clean statistics and regularly execute it, things tend to operate normally.

Is there no one who can point me to a way to identify this process (or these processes)?

Thanks Eric,

I've read all 28 pages of that post and tried everything mentioned. Should I just continue to monitor that post? Or move my particular concerns to that post?

Thanks again,

Don

I did post the results Linc asked for on 26 Dec - at least to the best of my ability. As I noted above, my problem doesn't happen at a particular time, memory just decreases and decreases. I could post the console log from a cold boot if that would help. As I said, it's about 1300 lines.

My available memory is at 20MB right now. Here's my Activity Monitor:

Yes 213JB, I get spikes in memory pressure. The indicator goes into the red zone and the machine freezes for a moment. Worst case, I get an Out of Memory popup and am asked to kill an app. Since I started monitoring and using Memory Clean (which seems to have some detractors on this site), this happens infrequently. I have NO IDEA how Memory Clean works or what it does. But without it, this machine would be useless to me. Executing it will, on occasion, cause a memory pressure spike into the red zone.

Unfortunately, other than Memory Clean, I cannot find a correlation between the memory pressure spikes and what I'm doing. It doesn't seem to happen just because I've invoked a new application or a new tab or URL in Safari. Believe me, I'm trying very, very hard to correlate the spike and memory degradation to something identifiable - just no luck yet.

Thanks for asking.

You are correct Barney-15E; I do not fully understand memory management in Yosemite. I do understand that it is attempting to use all available memory to speed things up; hence low available memory in and of itself is not necessarily a problem.

It’s the “out of memory” and attendant requirement to shut down applications that are frustrating me – that and the damnable rotating ball. See my reply to 213JB about how I’m using Memory Clean to survive – it is NOT my first choice. It’s also something I learned about in this forum AFTER my original post.

I have also done virtually everything discussed in Luis_Mercado’s “Guide: How to solve Yosemite memory leaks and CPU usage” (Most recently unchecking the 'displays have separate spaces') at least once.

I have uninstalled every unused (and many seldom-used) application I could find.

I will attempt to capture a shot of Activity Monitor with high memory pressure.

Thanks for looking. I appreciate any help I can get!