MacBook Pro :: SystemUIServer, UserEventAgent And Loginwindow Processes Cause Memory Loss?
Apr 30, 2012
everytime i start my machine the three processes start immediatly to raise to something like 1gb (each!). So far i tried
-resetting SMC, PRAM, NVRAM
-repair disk permissions
-setting volume to boot from
-deleted the com.apple.loginwindow.plist and loginwindow.plist
and i have the newest version of lion installed. i havent used the computer all the weekend and when i turned it on yesterday the problem appeared
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MacBook
Pro
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Apr 25, 2012
I recently added more RAM to my system and I always keep Activity Monitor running with the memory usage icon on the Dock to see how much Lion and my programs use. I noticed that even several CS5 programs running at the same time won't use that much, the program I've seen uses the most is Aperture, using anywhere from 500MB on start to 2.5GB while viewing--not editing--photos.
My questions is, when my system is running normally it uses from a quarter to half the total memory available but just now it's using more than three quarters and it's running not even half programs I use everyday. I quickly added up the memory being used and it's just missing out A LOT. I'm adding a screenshot of Activity Monitor for you to see.
I now that restarting the system (or by using the purge command in Terminal) will free up memory but this really puzzles me and I'd really like to know what's happening--BTW, even though several GB are missing, the computer is nowhere nears slow, at least. Where are all the other processes using the rest of the memory? I'm using OS X 10.7.3 Server with 16GB of RAM on an iMac.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 27-inch Mid 2011.
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I am currently editing lots of pdfs and other files for notes. There is one particular big file, ca. 300 MB (part of a book). When I edit this file in Preview (underlining etc.) and save my changes, I loose almost the whole size of the file in disk space.
Saving 10 times, that equals ca. 3 GB. Since I am a diligent "back-upper", I loose ca. 3 GB every 90 minutes. Over the last 3 days, this has consumed more or less 40 GB of my storage space. I have restarted several times and had to delete a lot of files; the sleepimage file is ca. 1 GB big only, so that is not the problem;so I have used "Disk Utility" to localize the massive space use.
Disk utility registers the storage loss in total numbers (35 GB free, next time only 32 GB free), but not within the folders (the single sizes of the folders -Application; Library; User etc-), their sizes stay the same!what happened to my disk space. I need to restore those 40 GB they are being used by something completely useless somewhere.
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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I'm using 2014 MBP 13" with last version of Yosemite. I had connected my old VGA monitor via thunderbolt and new one via HDMI. As soon as I connect the second one SystemUIServer process eats all memory like 70gb and use %100+ CPU which makes my computer unusable. I've tried to kill but it reproduce itself instantly. I can successfully connect 1(doesn't matter vga or hdmi) extra display but issue is connecting both of them at the same time.
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Apr 25, 2012
my 2 week old 13" macbook pro Mac OSx 10.7.3 keeps on freezing, crashing and sometimes it wont boot. i checked the console and found this error several times : it may or may not be the cause of the crash.
"4/25/12 11:27:00.035 PM UserEventAgent: [11] error in getAndLockContext: open returned -1 (errno=2) file was /private/var/servermgrd//servermgr_certs.lock".
and just now i noticed that my battery icon has an (x) indicating that there is no battery installed! FYI my MBP just came from a full charge.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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I use my MBP as such - I charge it to 100%, sometimes I'll continue to use it on the charger, other times I won't. After its charged, if I leave my room with it, I won't charge it again until it gets down to 40% or less. I'll plug it in at the end of the night, and let it charge up. Sometimes I'll take it off the charger once I go to bed, other times I'll let it charge throughout the night.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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1. I've become attached to the idea of installing two disks into my MacBook by removing the optical drive. I've done the appropriate amount of research to determine feasibility (it IS indeed possible). But I wonder, could I RAID these disks together in a striped array (0?). I tried launching the RAID Utility on my MacBook and it says "it is not supported with this computer". I plan on maintaining a Time Capsule backup of the RAID as often as possible to minimize data loss should something happen.
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When I run my macbook pros Battery down, there comes the low battery warning. After a while the system just goes down without suspending anything to my harddisk. When I restart my computer it does a normal start and after logging in I'm experiencing a lot messages due to the reset time. I correct my system-time and restart my mac and the system is back to normal.
Usually I'd say: Replace your CMOS-Battery (I know I have an EFI-Firmware), but where is it?. Or in other words: Is there a "System"-Battery, that would prevent my mac from forgetting the time?
Since I'm not running down my battery to 0 very often I only experience this issue from time to time and never took time to do anything about it.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2,5GHz 8GB Ram
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My November 2011 17" MacBook Proi has on several occasions gone to a black screen, which requires hard shutdown and re-boot. It happens in two ways: coming out of sleep, the screen appears for a second and then goes black, and sometimes when jjust using the Mac.
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MacBook Pro (17-inch), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Aug 29, 2009
Pre Snow Leopard I ran around 65~ processes
Post Snow Leopard, 63 processes
Take in account about 5-10 processes are my own. I thought SL removed a lot of useless processes. I will try a clean install and report back later.
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why I have two processes running dashboard with the 64bit one needing significantly more RAM?
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I am a windows dude, you can tell. I need to turn off unnecessary processes on a Mac. In "Windows", I would edit the startup processes... and in Computer admin, turn off all "services" I did not need.
What do I do on a Mac? I need it to be permanent, not temporary (like I know how to shut off iTunes helper for a session- I want it off after restarts, too.
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I would like to disable some processes from starting upon login, but can't figure out how. I am not referring to the Login Items of System Preferences>Accounts. I have checked /Library/StartupItems/ (empty), /Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist (essentially empty), and ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist (which only contains the things that i do want, it matches my account preferences).
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Been having a problem with my Mac Pro for some time, so decided to monitor and see what the cause is: I have been seeing a lot of this in kernel.log Feb 15 02:25:24 wamphyrii kernel[0]: proc: table is full And Also this:
Feb 15 01:33:20 wamphyrii kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_allocate_cluster - send HI_WAT_ALERT
Feb 15 01:33:20 wamphyrii kernel[0]: macx_swapon FAILED - 12
Feb 15 01:39:24 wamphyrii kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
So, i ran a cron job every 10 minutes to try and find out if i have something that is continuoulsy forking new processes. At the time of my latest crash I had over 700 processes like this:
14885 322 0 1:21AM ?? 0:00.01 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyControls.framework/Resources/logoutHelp er 502
99 of these:
/System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SecurityAgent
[code]....
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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