I have Parallels installed on my Mac and get the message "no program memory available" when opening Iphoto. Who can help me? Thank you
Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Are you running an OS in Parrallels?
If so how much is allocated to that OS?
If you go to Activity Monitor what does that say about memory usage? A screen shot would be nice.
It will not say that Paralles is the issue but since a update last week I'm not able to open Iphoto and the system is hanging. Ik will look at the Activity Monitor
There is excessive swapping of data between physical memory (that is, the memory chips on the logic board) and virtual memory (one or more files on the startup volume.) That activity is relatively slow and causes the whole system to be less responsive. It can happen for two reasons:
A long-running process with a memory leak (a kind of bug)
Not enough memory for your usage pattern
Please note that if the cause is a memory leak, installing more memory will not help. That's likely if you already have more than 4 GB of memory. Tracking down a memory leak can be difficult, and it may come down to a process of elimination.
These instructions are for OS X 10.9 and later. Some details may be slightly different for earlier versions of OS X.
When you notice the swap activity, open the Activity Monitor application and select All Processes from the View menu, if it's not already selected. Select the Memory tab. Click the heading of the Real Mem column in the process table twice to sort the table with the highest value at the top. If you don't see that column, select
View ▹ Columns ▹ Real Memory
from the menu bar.
If one process (excluding "kernel_task") is using much more memory than all the others, that could be an indication of a leak. A better indication would be a process that continually grabs more and more real memory over time without ever releasing it. Here is an example of how it's done.
In your case, iPhoto is clearly leaking memory. Quit it and see whether it continues to do that.
Memory problems MacBook Pro
