Ran out of application memory

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unblocktheplanet

Discussion Starter · 4 mo ago

2015 MBP, 10.13.6, 16 GB, ~20% free disk space

I don't often shut down my Mac. Things were slowing down yesterday so I restarted, used Memory Clean's deep clean option, ran OnyX.

Overnight, I had only a few apps running: Safari, Firefox, Chrome, TextEdit. (Yeah, all have many open tabs.)

Woke up to find all apps quit & a warning I had run out of application memory. First time, I believe, since 2015!

Restarted those applications (screenshot attached) & ran Memory Clean again. Looked OK but noted Firefox as a memory hog (Activity Monitor screenshot attached).

Any ideas, please? TIA!

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· #5 · 4 mo ago

unblocktheplanet said:
Discussion Starter · #1 · 14 h ago

2015 MBP, 10.13.6, 16 GB, ~20% free disk space
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Thanks, Randy. I thought I was safe around 80%.

Just to reinforce what Randy has already pointed out and from the specs that you provided, you are already running at the minimal recommended threshold of free space on your hard drive.

Time to do something about that I would suggest. Especially for a solid state drive as they seem to appreciate and work better and faster having even more free space over the recommended rotational spinning hard drives free space. ;-)

- Patrick
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· #8 · 4 mo ago

unblocktheplanet said:
But there are still some anomalies. Slow to wake from sleep, spontaneous restarts.

It's an SSD so not defrag.

What a rip-off, eh! Buy a 1TB SSD & get 750GB of storage!

I would suggest there is something else wrong and causing the problems, I also have a 1TB SSD (OWC) with 207± GB available without any such problems: 2011 27" iMac 29GB RAM running OS X 10.9 Mavericks.

No problems with later macOS partition versions when I occasionally use any of them either.

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· #10 · 4 mo ago

unblocktheplanet said:
Any ideas? Reinstall MacOS? Thx.

Before doing that, which some users advocate as a solution, Have you tried keeping an eye on Activity Monitor to see what processes are going on, and have you tried booting up in Safe Boot Mode and see if the problems stop.

Maybe things will start improving on their own since you thinned out your drive and gave it some breathing room so I wouldn't be be too hasty doing any drastic changes, at least not right away. No reason to make more extra work if it's not really needed.

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· #12 · 4 mo ago

Macfury said:
He already posted screen shots of his Activity Monitor.

Yes they did.

My point was for them to keep a close watch on their Activity Monitor for any large changes or processes that might be going on that could possibly cause any of the problems they might be having.

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· #15 · 4 mo ago

unblocktheplanet said:
Big worry for me is, this is a 2015 Mac, my only computer, and a new one would sure clean me out.

Considering that my wife and I still use a 2007 and 2011 iMacs, I daresay you have very little to worry abou If you take care of it. Baysides which, If you really do need to upgrade at some point, there is usually no real valid reason you would have to buy a new Mac, and a used one would probably be more than adequate and save you a fair bundle of money as well.

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· #17 · 4 mo ago

unblocktheplanet said:
I do worry that old MBPs are less robust than old iMacs. Battery aso.

I would suggest you stop worrying and just enjoy and use the Mac that you do have unless there is some feature that you really need that a later model might possibly have.

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· #22 · 4 mo ago

glenng6 said:
I use a G5 to back up and sync some folders. It has been in use since 2006. Glenn

I also have some old G3 and G4 Macs in the basement still in working order but haven't been used for several years now, but it's nice to hear that your G5 is still giving you some good service. That's a good long service record for a personal computer.

I dare say that there would be a lot more of them still in use only if the software they need to run modern stuff could be updated somehow. Not everyone needs the speediest machines going for what the average person uses their computer for.

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