OS X V10.7 Lion :: Mac Is Eating Up Memory?
May 7, 2012
I recently filled my scratch disks, thinking it was due to all the photos I have on my MAC, i began moving them all to a backup external hard drive and then removing them from my MAC. I managed to move about 60GB of photos off my machine and contined using my MAC as usual. The next day after adding nothing or even using my mac my memory has somehow filled itself back up and i now have only 1GB left on my hard drive with nothing to show from it. I thought it may be a virus and have ran Sophos anti virus software but found none. what i can do to stop my mac from being so memory hungry?       Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 2, 2010
I have the latest iMac i5 with 4GB of memory; however, 32 bit MS Office and 64 bit MacMail chew up memory like crazy. At this moment, I have less than 1/2 a Gig left. I stopped using Safari because it ate up memory so fast. Chrome is a lot better.I find that I have to restart Office apps and MacMail periodically or else.I didn't have this problem with my old G4 with one GiB of memory.Is this normal or is there something wrong with my iMac?Is there something I should be doing other that quitting MS Word periodically and then rebooting it? Is letting an Office app stay open a no no?
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Aug 25, 2010
I've got a problem that is really getting on my nerves now and I have no idea what is causing it.
Basically I will have switched on my MBP with around 2-3GB of HDD space free, and after working on it for around 2-3 hours with applications that shouldn't demand any space whatsoever (Firefox, Safari, Preview), I get that little OS X error that tells me I have limited space left.
As I mentioned before I have no idea why this is happening. Has anyone experienced anything similar, as I'm desperate for a solution. I can't keep deleting important personal files every few hours in order to keep the system running.
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Apr 5, 2012
I have a program called Free Memory.It shows you how much available RAM you have left to use. Last week, my available RAM, which is usually somewhere between 3GB-5GB, was down at about 250MB! I checked the RAM usage in Activity Monitor, and it showed that Quicktime was using about 5GB of RAM. Yes 5GB.I closed Quicktime and the RAM jumped back up.I reopened it and I could actually watch as my RAM just poured off. In less than 2 minutes, it went from 5GB available to about 100 MB again.Today, the same thing happened, but the RAM sucker was Shockwave. Has anybody heard of this happening before? If so, what is the solution?Here is some more info. In the "console" I often get these --- Exception Type:
EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)A few months back, the Genius Bar people wiped my hard drive clean and we reloaded my stuff from a back up. Maybe there are still issues.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 17, 2012
My gf's old Black MacBook keeps eating her hard drives. So far she's gone through 5! Last one died just sitting in the living room floor. I'm wondering what could be wrong, I'm thinking maybe a bad logic board? I've bought her a MacBook Air to replace it but I'd like a project trying to fix that old MacBook.
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Nov 22, 2009
My Apple wireless keyboard started wailing through batteries about a month ago. Around the time I upgraded to 10.6.2 or added the magic mouse... not sure which.
Batteries used to last months. Now, a week - max. I'm talking about the small Bluetooth Apple wireless keyboard with no right-hand numeric keypad.
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Apr 3, 2012
I called the help support and I told them that my back up is taking up all my disk space. They told me tolocate the time machine back up in hd and them delete the time machine and i did not know how to do this. how to get rid of this back up. I am trying omi sweep but I still cant find where all the back up data is coming from.
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MacBook, iOS 5.1
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Jan 18, 2008
I had my first leopard problem on my 1.67 15" powerbook last night. I lost bluetooth so I restarted, I went to the activity monitor and there was a kernel task eating up 152 mb of my ram. All updates are current and I have 2gb of ram. Any ideas as to what this action is doing. I also have a dual 2.4 g5 with 3.5 gb of ram(but no kernel task issues).
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Jul 1, 2009
I looked in iStat Pro, at then saw that Safari was eating up one entire core of my processor. I am running one window with 3 tabs, another web archive, another Google search, a Google Image search, a window with a Youtube HD video running+a tab with a Google Video search. Is this to be expected with this much running? I am using Spaces.
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Jul 22, 2010
i have an imac 21' with OS 10.5 leopard and all the updates installed and everything is supposed to be running smoothly.and i use the iStat pro to track everything. a week ago, i noticed something really strange. something is downloading on my computer and eating all the bandwidth to the extent i can't even browse the internet. i quit all the programs running but still it was not faltering. the only thing that seemed to work is to turn off airport and turning it on again, is there any other way to know what is doing that to me and how to stop it. i read somewhere about littlesnitch but it did not help me. any suggesstions on what does this and how to manage it?
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Jun 26, 2012
I downloaded this program that would back up my computer at 3:30 every morning. It was a scheduling app for Time Machine, so it didn't want to back up at inconvenient times. The trouble is that it eats hard drive space all day long. I can't figure out why? It will eat about 30 GB until disk is full and then reset. If I restart it resets. Then slowly climb it's way back down to near full.Â
So I tried deleting the program that does it. It's still eating my hard drive space and telling time machine to start at 3:30 in the morning. I have no idea what the program was called. Time Machine Scheduler I think. Either way, it said it would clear my preferences once I deleted it which it did not. Now I can't find the company that made the program to email them. There is nothing in my apps. Not sure what to do to reset it.Â
Also, will the eating of HDD space happen with every Time Machine Scheduler? Having a back up at 3:30 am is really helpful for me but it is not helpful if Time Machine is constantly preparing for it in the background, which slows the computer down and is worse than the inconenience of Time Machine backing up when it wants.Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), ATI Radeon 5770
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Jul 12, 2008
I am running 10.5.4 now, did iTunes 7.7 update and the MobileMe update.
However, the problem occured before all that, I think it first occured after my first .mac sync on this machine (Macbook 2.16, 2GB Ram)
What is happening now is that sometimes a process called Preference Sync client eats all my RAM (up to 1GB real and 2GB virtual) and crashes randomly.
I can't tell what could be the reason for this...?
Maybe anyone has an idea.
I tried permissions and restart etc. Always occurs again.
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May 14, 2012
how do i get 2 GB of memory when i only have 1 GB?
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May 27, 2012
Can you use lion with 1 GB of memory?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 20, 2012
My iMac have been working fine until today.
There was a lot of stuff in the Software Upgrade tool that I recently installed (today). I worked for about half an hour until I noticed that the computer was extremly slow - so I looked in the Activity Monitor. I saw that Finder was using 2 GB of "real memory". So I restarted Finder.
After about 1 minute Finder was consuming 2 GB of real memory again. So i restarted my computer. After about 1 minute Finder was consuming 2 GB of memory - again. Currently Finder is using 1.71 GB of memory. What can I do? I can't work with a computer this slow, Also - can I shut down Finder completly so that it doesn't restart?
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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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.Â
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.Â
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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Feb 1, 2012
I get this error on all my computers when I try to download Lion. Mac OS X 10.7 requires at least 2 GB of memory.... But my systems show more than enough free space.
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Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Apr 2, 2012
I've been noticing with iStat Pro that out my 8GB of memory, 1.2 GB of it is Active and 1.3 GB is Wired, but when no applications are running. Not even the hidden task bar ones. Then when I start Google Chrome, my Active memory jumps up to 2.4 GB. I'm on a Macbook Pro (thunderbolt gen) with a Core i5 2.3 Ghz, 8 GB memory along with a 500 GB Hard Drive (80% full). I've had my Macbook for almost a year now, and this has become progressively worse.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
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Apr 22, 2012
I've been noticing with iStat Pro that out my 8GB of memory, 1.2 GB of it is Active and 1.3 GB is Wired, but when no applications are running. Not even the hidden task bar ones. Then when I start Google Chrome, my Active memory jumps up to 2.4 GB. I'm on a Macbook Pro (thunderbolt gen) with a Core i5 2.3 Ghz, 8 GB memory along with a 500 GB Hard Drive (80% full). I've had my Macbook for almost a year now, and this has become progressivly worse.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
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Apr 22, 2012
I was wondering if any of you have been able to save OS X Lion to an SD memory card. I want to do this but I have no where to start, How big of an SD card should I use 4GB?Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Quad Core i7 8GB Ram 750GB 7200
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May 8, 2012
I've noticed lately that Safari (red) has three processes that take most of my memory, along with the horrible McAffe Anti-virus (blue) that my job requires... is this normal? Is there any way to reduce this?Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Jul 5, 2012
My Mac Pro doesn't boot when I have 16Gb of RAM memory installed. I want to know if is possible to deactivate slots memory in Mac OS X (Lion 10.7.4) because I will use only two slots with two 4Gb modules.
Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Aug 26, 2010
I have a iMac DV G3/500 (Special Edition) from summer 2000. Anyway, I am using Mac OS 10.2.8. Recently, my start up disk's memory has gone done from 1.2 GB available free space to 668MB (currently). I haven't saved anything on this disk so I can not understand why this memory has dissappeared. I have also had icons on the start up menu disappear. Could someone please tell me how I can restore the missing memory?
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Oct 16, 2009
I have a Black MacBook (Early 2008). I think that I still have the factory standard RAM sticks (I bought the Mac used from a friend). I noticed today that I am running on only one gig of RAM even though I have two gigs of memory.
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Feb 13, 2012
I have an issue I have been seeing since upgrading to Lion (10.7.3) and the latest version of Safari (5.1.3, I believe?). When browsing the web for a while (particularly, Flash heavy sites, I have noticed my computer's temperature getting hot and more beach balling starting to occur. The first time this happened, I opened Activity Monitor and noticed that Flash Player was using, almost, 900 MB of RAM (and I had less than 100 MB available). Other than Safari, I only had a couple of other applications open, neither of which were memory intensive. Quitting Safari gave me back a huge amount of memory, my temperatures, quickly, dropped back down to reasonable levels, and the performance lag went away. I never saw this kind of memory hogging under Snow Leopard. Is Flash Player this much of a nuisance under, either, Firefox or Chrome?Â
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, 2.53 GHz, i5 with 4 GB of RAM.Â
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 26, 2012
Just finished installing Snow Leopard in preparation to download Lion on our desktop.
I purchased the Snow Leopard DVD and installed with success. I went to purchase Lion through the App store and received a message.
"Lion needs at least 2 BG of memory to download" There is only 1GB of memory left. Can I "trash/dump" something? If so, HOW??
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iMac, Other OS
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Mar 11, 2012
After upgrade to lion 10.7.3 and Xcode 4.3.1, four processes, include systemUIevent,uiagent,kernel... Continue eat the memory, Soon the system is out of memory.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 14, 2012
I'm getting messages stating "Your Mac OS X startup disk has no more space available for application memory." I've determined that my system memory is rapidly reducing after the MacBook Air is left on with only the Activity Monitor and Terminal open.
MacBook Air Stats:
11-Inch, Mid 2011
Processor: 1.8 Ghz Intel Core i7
Memory: 4GB 1333 Mhz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 384MB
Software: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3
My SSD drive space is rapidly reduced after the "free memory" is almost completed used - the MacBook then starts using the SSD drive as virtual memory and almost uses that space (I have a 250GB drive with 60GB available when I start the mac).Everything works great for the first 5-10 minutes, then I see the "free memory" decrese until it's down to about 30MB or so and then the SWAP used increases until my hard drive is almost totally out of space and gives me the error above. During this time the MacBook Airs little fan turns on.I can only use my Mac for about 30 minutes or so until I have to restart due to the HD being filled up by the virtual memory SWAP. The Mac is also very slow during this time as you can imagine.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 26, 2012
After my computer slowed down, I checked activity monitor to see address book using between 80 - 90 % of the CPU. I closed Address book and reopened. same issue. Tried deleting preferences and rebuilding metadata. Running Lion 10.7.3 on a new IMac
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 26, 2012
since I installed OSX Lion, I've noticed my Active memory has been very high, Infact, currently with nothing but 1 tab of google chrome and activity monitor running, my macbook is currently has 50% active, 25% wired, 22% inactive, and 3% Free.It remains this way even when I try to do resource intense stuff like photo editing or games, or document editing. This is quite a problem since my Macbook only has 2 gb of ram, and games such as minecraft and photoediting need more than the 25% of active/free ram.Since installing Lion, 3 weeks ago, i've noticed my computer running more, getting hotter(and faster fan speeds when it does), and many more active running processes. So, I am wondering, if there is anything I can do to lower the active ram and if there is anything I can do to make it more usable for my needs(without downgrading to snowleopard)
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3), aluminum macbook 2gb ram
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