Finder periodically using waaayyyyy too much memory

Since upgrading to 10.5.8 the Finder strikes me as being a bit odd at times. Sometimes it is using a lot of cpu cycles such as 50-80% for no apparent reason that I can find – not copying anything, etc. In trying to sus this out when I notice my machine working harder than I think it should be, I used Activity Monitor to look at the Finder processes. Under stats it showed a huge number of faults, I'm talking here in the 300 million range with Unix calls in the same rough range. Under Memory it showed 16,777,216.00TB under Shared Memory. This then changed to 00 and the same number popped up under Virtual Private, then in both this and Private, then disappeared, only to popup again shortly thereafter.
I've done a couple of restarts, done the permissions, etc. and it isn't always this way. But something seems amiss and I can't replicate it on demand.
Any ideas of help someone can offer?
Thanks!

Hi abrody;
You have to help me here for what I should be looking for. In Console under All Messages this was going on during the times I had the problem. Useful?
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 15:54:50 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[497]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 15:56:09 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[511]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 15:56:23 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[520]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 15:56:35 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[523]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 15:56:47 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[526]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 16:17:42 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[528]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 16:17:55 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[552]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 16:18:08 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[555]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 16:30:13 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[560]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 16:30:26 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[619]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 16:30:40 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[622]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 16:56:32 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[625]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:16:06 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[704]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:29:28 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[730]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:29:40 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[750]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:29:53 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[753]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:52:46 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[757]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:52:55 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[2170]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:53:06 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[2182]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:53:16 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[2196]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:54:48 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[2207]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:54:58 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[2305]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:55:08 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[2317]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
2010/01/28 , 28 Jan - 17:55:18 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1097d0.mdworker[2331]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
I also found 20 instances of mdworker crashes under CrashReporter during the same time. Here is one report:
Process: mdworker [2367]
Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker
Identifier: mdworker
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: PPC (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time: 2010-01-28 17:55:40.136 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 9946F421-9403-40D9-B56F-68F580EC3B48
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000023
Crashed Thread: 1
Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93aa41f8 machmsgtrap + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93aab11c mach_msg + 56
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x91327394 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1812
3 mdworker 0x0000b374 0x1000 + 41844
4 mdworker 0x00007fc0 0x1000 + 28608
5 mdworker 0x00002088 0x1000 + 4232
Thread 1 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0xfffeff18 objcmsgSendrtp + 24
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x96059dc0 NSPopAutoreleasePool + 516
2 com.apple.MDImporter.RichText 0x0004f8cc GetMetadataForFile + 2340
3 mdworker 0x00005384 0x1000 + 17284
4 mdworker 0x00008b50 0x1000 + 31568
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93ae60c4 pthreadstart + 316
Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93ae5904 kevent + 12
1 mdworker 0x00003c04 0x1000 + 11268
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x9605dd84 _NSThread__main_ + 1004
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93ae60c4 pthreadstart + 316
Thread 1 crashed with PPC Thread State 32:
srr0: 0xfffeff18 srr1: 0x0200f030 dar: 0x00000023 dsisr: 0x40000000
r0: 0x00000001 r1: 0xf007f220 r2: 0x00807054 r3: 0x0015cc90
r4: 0x9109f0d0 r5: 0x00000468 r6: 0x00005cc0 r7: 0x0200078c
r8: 0x001fc080 r9: 0x00000000 r10: 0x00807000 r11: 0x6ef7f0d0
r12: 0x00000003 r13: 0x00117160 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00020000 r18: 0x00119690 r19: 0x0015cc00
r20: 0x0015c510 r21: 0x910514f8 r22: 0x00a00000 r23: 0x0015c9d0
r24: 0x0004efb0 r25: 0x0015cb70 r26: 0x0015cb70 r27: 0x0015cbb0
r28: 0x0015cbb0 r29: 0x0004efb0 r30: 0x0015c880 r31: 0x96059bc4
cr: 0x44000424 xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x96059dc4 ctr: 0x93aa5590
vrsave: 0x00000000
Binary Images:
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0x973fa000 - 0x97421fff libcups.2.dylib ??? (???) <640068d6a91267e0d6e31afdac1c4a03> /usr/lib/libcups.2.dylib
0xfffec000 - 0xfffeffff libobjc.A.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
0xffff8000 - 0xffff9703 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
I looked through this but it takes a better eye than mine. Any insight?
I've also been having odd things happen with iPhoto. Dangerous to assume coincidence but am trying to sort that also.

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Garageband 11: lagging or unresponsive interface; frequently crashes; and is using way too much memory

Since updating to the newest version of Garageband I've noticed a distinct slow down in interface and functionality; makes editing incredibly difficult having to wait 2-3 seconds after selecting a note or section; sometimes the whole app becomes unresponsive or just crashes altogether. It also completely maxes out memory usage (8GB!) My machine specs are below but I can't imagine why I couldn't run it. It boots up in about 5 seconds and before Mavericks I could run Logic, Garageband, MS Word, Adobe Edge Animate, and Adobe Muse without it breaking a sweat. Now it's running the fans at full blast using way more memory than is necessary.
My Machine
The OS and Applications run off of a 120GB SSD and instead of an Optical drive I use a data doubler and a second internal (500GB HDD) for backups and extra storage - neither are anywhere near capacity.
Also, I'm not running any other apps, and even tried disabling network connections; no change at all. I do know that Mavericks uses memory differently (don't fully understand the benifit or how it works) but when I open Activity Monitor while running GarageBand it show's my "Memory Used:" at 7.99GB/8GB; but the pressure is still in the green. Could someone please explain to me how the memory usage differs now and why my machine needs to use all of the memory at once to run GarageBand when it is the only app open?
Why is it that 10.9 is substantially more taxing than 10.8 while claiming to be the opposite? What am I missing here?
Please Help! :-)

Since updating to the newest version of Garageband I've noticed a distinct slow down in interface and functionality;
Your question is a bit ambigious - the "Newest version" would be GarageBAnd 10.0.1, but the title of your question says GarageBand '11. Are you saying, you upgraded to GarageBand 10.0, but now GarageBand '11 (version 6.0.5) is having troubles?
makes editing incredibly difficult having to wait 2-3 seconds after selecting a note or section; sometimes the whole app becomes unresponsive or just crashes altogether.
Perhaps a crash log could help. Or error messages from the Console window. Does the Console.app show any diagnostic messages, when this hanging occurs?
and before Mavericks I could run Logic, Garageband, MS Word, Adobe Edge Animate, and Adobe Muse without it breaking a sweat.
Have all these applications been updated to the latest, Mavericks compatible versions? And all other non-Apple applications?

How do I stop Firefox 5.0 being so slow and using far too much memory. I have disabled the plug-in container hoping this would help.

Firefox 5.0 quickly uses 256,000+ of memory and becomes slow enough to use 60% of a twin-code processor and fails to respond for many, many minutes (10 mins +). It is often quicker to kill it ans start again, but this is a pain as I can have up to 4 /5 tabs open.

Try a new Profile and see how it is.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows

IMac using up too much memory?

Good morning everyone.
I have a mid 2011 iMac and have upgraded the memory to 6GB. Once i upgraded the RAM the computer felt very snappy as I was able to do more at one. Last night I noticed the lag especially in the finder that I experienced before the RAM upgrade. I opened the activity monitor and noticed that on start up my Mac uses around 2.74 GB of Memory Used. I have been monitoring the memory usage and have noticed that my system uses about 3.33-3.75 GB of memory when I have one Safari window up. Is this memory usage normal. I have no log in items and I and the most that I am doing is using iTunes, Safari, Twitter and Mail at one time.
I am not the most savvy when it comes to the technical part of Macs but I noticed that the kernel_task is running around 423.9MB as I am writing this message.
Can someone please assist in understanding this issue I may or may not have?
Much appreciated
Alex

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Firefox 4 is slow, it hangs and uses far-too much memory

I've just had to roll-back to Firefox 3.6.16.
For those with a similar problem, here's the link:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
Firefox 4 became unusable. Firefox 3.6.16 is using about 110,00k of memory - but Firefox 4 was using, typically 160,000k but anything up to 200,000k causing my machine to hang as it struggled to find the memory.
The weird thing about the memory use was that it just kept on climbing - just a couple of tabs open, nothing special, but you watch the memory usage keep stepping on in about 200k increments.
There appears to be a major memory leak in Firefox 4, and until it is rectified it really is, for me, completely unusable. I had to use explorer to download 3.6.16 it was that bad.

This is a reply I made to someone else who also finds the same problem. We think it is not a memory leak, but FF4 caching page in RAM.
Reply:
As I long time FF user (1st 20,000 downloaders) I am so disappointed with 4.0.
I find similar problem. 3.6.16 used approx. 6% of 2Gb RAM, 4 has been reported at 25%. Not caused by extensions as installed over 3.6 with no change in same few exts. Many other problems (e.g. 4 fails to remember allowed redirects & many undesired changes) so resorted to backup of 3.6. Not a definitive answer, but one sure to work is to install a totally portable version of 3.6.16 (or even 4 if you wish to play around with it), there are many portable versions available which do not mess with anything else on your machine, just Google Firefox Portable. I almost exclusively use Portable progs. for everything nowadays and if issue crops up it is as simple as deleting the folder it was installed in. Also it can be copied to a Flash Drive complete with all exts. & settings and used on any win os PC. This is a good recommendation. Hope this helps.

Ipod Nano using up too much memory

I plugged my friend's "Brand new" Nano into my Mac and it says that it is currently using 588 MB. The problem is there are no songs or pictures on it! So I guess my question is what could possibly be occupying the 588 MB? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

No idea - but did you try to run the current iPod updater to restore it to factory conditions?
http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/

I keep getting a pop up saying Firefox is using far too much memory

If I try to download a video or film something that would have taken 30 minutes is now taking 10-12 hours.
My download speed is showing 4.79 MB/sec but it´s certainly not doing that.

This issue can be caused by the presence of leftover files in the Firefox program folder (defaults\pref) like a file firefox.js that overrides the update URL with a wrong link.
See my post here and do a clean reinstall and be sure to remove the Firefox program folder.
* [/questions/826858]
Do a clean (re-)install:
Download a fresh Firefox copy and save the file to the desktop.
* Firefox 4.0.x: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
* Uninstall your current Firefox version and remove the Firefox program folder before installing that copy of the Firefox installer.
* Do not remove personal data if you uninstall the current version.
* It is important to delete the Firefox program folder to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.
Your bookmarks and other profile data are stored elsewhere in the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Firefox Profile Folder] and won't be affected by a reinstall, but make sure that you do not select to remove personal data if you uninstall Firefox.

FPGA code using too much memory? getting error 52000

Hi all,
   I'm having trouble getting some FPGA code to run. What I am trying to do with the program is acquire data using DAQmx from two fgen's, and then use an FPGA based lock-in amplifier to find the frequency of these signals and their phase difference (It's actually only a slight modification of a lock-in amplifier available on the NI site). I keep getting error 52000 when I start up the program, indicating I'm using up too much memory somewhere. I don't know why this is, as even the lowest sampling rates I give to the DAQ do not keep this problem from happening. Could someone look at my code to see whats going on?
Thanks,
      Grant
Attachments:
LIA_SSTL.lvproj ‏90 KB

I am using a PXI-7852R card in a PXI-1033 chassis, all connected to my comp through a PCI bridge. I'm also using a PXI-6115 data acquisition card, which is feeding data to the FPGA.
Sorry for not attaching the VI's, I thought they were contained within the llb. Here they are.
Thanks,
     Grant
Attachments:
LIA_FPGA.vi ‏285 KB
LIA_Host.vi ‏2346 KB

Firefox using too much memory after an update

Since I updated to firefox 14, it started using WAY too much memory, which is 2GB+. This has never happened to me, and none of the solutions on the website have helped me. It starts off normally at about 80 MBs and then starts growing and growing. I have to restart firefox about twice an hour or more.

I also recently downgraded my flash player to a recommended version on this website since the latest version crashes too much, that was about the time when I updated firefox, not sure if that might be why this is happening
EDIT: Updated to latest version of flash again. Memory usage is still high

Finer takes too much memory on yosemite! and keeps taking more and more until it gets the machine to it's knees! What to do???

Right after getting yosemite on my Macbook Pro with 16GB memory and SSD HDD. I find that after working for 30 minutes or so that the machine gets really slow, even switching between screens gets kinda of sluggish!!!
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If i quit it, the machine goes back to being normal, but then Finder will restart, and again after 30 minutes or so, it does the same thing over and over.
I am sure that it's some kind of a bug, but i don't know where to start to solve this problem!!!
This never happened on previous OSXs.
If anyone have a hint it will be appreciated.
Thanks,

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Finder keeps taking up too much memory thus slowing down the machine to it’s knees.
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Apps are using too much memory. how do i find out how much each app is using?

MACAir Memory 128gb: the apps are using too much memory. i get not sufficient memory for upgrades. how can i find out how much memory each app is using?

Mavericks is designed to use RAM differently for good reason. Normal
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/06/12/compressed-memory-in-os-x-109-maverick s-aims-to-free-ram-extend-battery-life
Mavericks uses RAM much more efficiently than any other previous version of OS X. Mavericks now has a memory compression feature that will compress the memory occupied by applications that aren't being actively used and give the freed up RAM to the application that needs it the most.
Memory Pressure graph that tells you how stressed is the system in terms of memory.
Fore more information about OS X Mavericks new system management technologies visit:
http://www.apple.com/osx/advanced-technologies/
See page 5 here:
http://images.apple.com/media/us/osx/2013/docs/OSX_Mavericks_Core_Technology_Ove rview.pdf

AVG says using too much memory because multiple firefox's are open but I only see one.

AVG scans regularly in background. Lately it has been showing a popup window that says multiple applications of Firefox are running and using too much memory so I should close some. But, I only can see 1. Tried CTRL ALT DEL to see if I could find answer, but only showed 1 firefox, and it was using over 28,000. So I think AVG is correct, but can't find out how to see what or where they are. They DO NOT show on the lower menu of the main screen, so I assume they are in the background. Don't have viruses, and Firefox regularly updates itself. What should I do to fix?

Hi cmich80220-
It's true you should only be able to run one instance of Firefox at a time. I searched but was unable to find anyone else with a similar issue. If the problem gets back to Firefox running slowly, you might check out this article for troubleshooting:
[Firefox is slow]]
Hope that helps.

Firefox 12 STILL consumes too much memory and periodically stalls

1. This has gone on actually since at least Firefox 8 for many of us. With Windows 7 32 or 64bit, AND we are told OTHER OS's as well, Firefox 12 IS consuming too much memory!
When FF 12 memory consumption "hits" 800MB on a 8 GB machine, and continues to slowly climb, FF 12 has code or other problems.
2. ALSO, Firefox 12 under many circumstances, is slowing to a crawl, especially in opening windows and tabs.
NOTHING we do, inspect with memory tools, etc. seems to point to any "culprits" or guide the way to researching and potentially solving these problems...and they ARE problems within Firefox 12, and likely earlier versions.
TIME TO CLEAR THE AIR?
These are problems being seen by others, with or without any (totally blanked out/disabled) Add-On's and even most Plug-In's being disabled or removed, both for testing the problems sen in FF 12.
There IS a problem, or more than one, here, and it's not isolated or "just refer to this checklist" solvable.
There's problems, perhaps memory leaks and other agenda IN THE CODE.
We users need to stop being poo-poo'ed and "pampered" by needless communications that do nothing to truly address the problems.

I encountered this after the memory leak was mentioned as pat of a slowdown issue with an add-on that has been in use as long as I've been using Firefox (All-in one sidebar -AIOS). After a relatively short length of time under both Firefox 11 and 12 it starts to slow down. Sub menus take more than a second to show up when the parent menu is clicked, links take more than a second to activate, pages don't load as quickly. (I have a 30Mbps downstream internet connection that I test regularly, and consistently shows between 25 and 30MBps speeds from multiple sites throughout the US. It's NOT my download speed.)
In looking for explanations I saw at least one mention of a memory Leak.
So I decided to test this for myself. I first removed AIOS, then re-started Firefox and just left it running. I did nothing except minimize and restore it a few times. About an hour later the memory used by FF had gone from a reasonable 42K or so, to over 200K.
I tested again after uninstalling ALL my add-ons and plug ins. The same thing happened again.
This is NOT simply high memory use. Which I interpret as a particular tasks or process using more memory than it maybe should.
This is quite clearly a memory leak. Nothing was being executed, nothing was running with Firefox, and no pages were loaded during this time. But he use memory just steadily grew.
This is clearly a new issues since I did NOT have this problem when I was using Firefox 8. If I can find an install of that I'm going back to it.
If not I'll settle for the ESR mentioned here. If nothing else it seems to have a slower leak.
I never did like the new version number / rapid release schedule. Mostly because growing version numbers at that rate made no real sense to me as a developer myself. But also because speed of release for new features should not be the target but quality. I think we can see that this has clearly fallen by the wayside.
I only wish I thought there was a viable alternative.

Firefox uses too much memory, gets bloated, and won't respond.

For the past several versions of FF....I have posted here about it's 'behavior' under OS X.
The browser uses too much memory. After a short period of time, it becomes 'bloated', slow to respond, and requiring a 'force quit' to get out of it.
Being as I've posted about this before, for a previous version, and only received feedback from other Mac users experiencing the same thing, and not getting answers or help...I've stopped using it once more. It was a one day trial, and I didn't make it past 6 hours of use.
Welcome back, Safari!!!

For the past several versions of FF....I have posted here about it's 'behavior' under OS X.
The browser uses too much memory. After a short period of time, it becomes 'bloated', slow to respond, and requiring a 'force quit' to get out of it.
Being as I've posted about this before, for a previous version, and only received feedback from other Mac users experiencing the same thing, and not getting answers or help...I've stopped using it once more. It was a one day trial, and I didn't make it past 6 hours of use.
Welcome back, Safari!!!

OIM 11g using too much memory and not releasing it when shutting down

Hello,
we have a problem with OIM 11g using too much memory (about 5gb) and it's not releasing it at shutdown (4gb still used).
We are using a VM with RedHat Linux 5.6. Originally we had 4gb RAM + 2gb swap file. We installed Admin Server, OAM, OIM and SOA on that machine but quickly realised we couldn't run all 4 programs at once in 6gb. AdminServer could run with 2 other products, but it was a tight fit in memory.
So we increased the RAM to 8gb (still 2gb swap file). But then our problem occured : I start the Admin Server (2.7gb total memory used), then OAM (4.6gb total memory used) and then OIM. After it started the server is now using 9.6gb of memory (~300mb of free memory) ! The problem gets even better : after I shut down everything (OIM, OAM, admin server) the "top" command show that there is still 4gb of memory used even tho nothing else is running on the server ! There is absolutely no other process (other than root stuff) running and no other users connected to the machine. After a reboot, it shows 400mb of memory used. I tried restarting the programs and it did the same thing.
Our intuition is that there might be a memory leak or some bug in OIM that might use up almost all the free memory and it's not releasing it upon shutdown. It might have been there before we increased the memory but have not noticed it since memory was already tight.
Anyone encountered the same problem ? Any idea ? Any suggestion to narrow down the problem ?
Thank you

You can adjust the memory settings for WLS by editing the setSOADomainEnv.sh file that can be found in your /middleware/user_projects/domains/<domain>/bin/ folder. There is an argument called PORT_MEM_ARGS which is used to set your Java memory arguments. This way you can decrease/increase the amount of memory used by each managed server.
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