IPhoto hangs via running out of memory upon launch

On Yosemite, iPhoto recently hangs upon launch. The memory and CPU maxes out, and Yosemite forces me to close the application before swapping occurs. Tried Disk Permission Repair, and several options via Command+Option when opening iPhoto.
Any ideas?

Doesn't anyone pay attention to the questions requested by Larry in his two posts?
And Apple isn't here. We're all users like yourself. So if you all would pay attention and answer questions we might be able to find out what the problem is. A good place to start are these additional questions.
With the amount of information you've provided it's impossible to offer a solution. We can't see your computer so we need to know the details of your problem and setup, i.e.:
what version of iPhoto are you using?
what system version are you running?
what exact message are you getting
what fixes have you tried?
where is your library located?
did you apply any updates or upgrades just prior to the problem occurring?
are you running a "managed" or "referenced" library?
what type of Mac?
how much free space on your boot drive?
Also it would be a good idea to download and run Etrecheck. Copy and paste the results into your reply. It's a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC to help identify the more obvious culprits.

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Hello,
my system has a finite amount of RAM and swap (it doesn't matter, to my purpose, if it's 16GB or 128MB, I'm not interested in increasing it anyway).
Sometimes my apps completely use all the available memory. I would expect that in these cases the kernel kills some apps to keep working correctly. The OOM Killer exists just for this, doesn't it?
What happens, instead, is that the system hangs. Even the mouse stops working. Sometimes it manages to get back to life in a few seconds/minutes, other times hours pass by and nothing changes.
I don't want to add more memory, I just want that the kernel kills some application when it's running out of memory.
Why isn't this happening?
Right now I'm writing a bash script that will kill the most memory-hungry process when available memory gets below 10%, because I'm sick of freezing my machine.
But why do I have to do this? Why do I need an user space tool polling memory usage and sentencing applications according to a cheap policy? What the hell is wrong with my OOM Killer, why isn't it doing is job?!

Alright, you won, now quit pointing out my ignorance
Your awkish oom killer is a lot cooler than mine, switching to it, thanks!
I did some testing (initially just to test the oom killing script) and found out that if a program tries to allocate all the memory it can, it gets eventually killed by linux's oom killer. If instead it stops allocating new memory when there are less than 4MB of free memory (or similar values) the OOM won't do anything, and the system will get stuck, like if a forkbomb was running.
That's it, this program with MINSIZE=1 will be killed, while with MINSIZE=4MB will force me to hard reboot:
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MINSIZE (1024*1024*4) // 4MB
int main( )
int block = 1024*1024*1024; // 1GB
void *p;
while( 1 ) {
p = malloc( block );
if( p ) {
memset( p, 85, block );
else if( block > MINSIZE ) {
block /= 2;
return 0;
Guess I'd need to go deeper to understand why Linux' oom killer works like that, but I won't (assuming the oom killing script will behave).

My mac's run out of memory and I can't find the culprit!

Hi, I'm in serious need of some help! I'm sure this is simple, but I'm about to break down over it – I use my mac for everything. I've got a 200gb 2009 macbook (running iOS7), and it's told me it's run out of memory. The storage tab in 'about this mac' tells me 108GB is being used for video – but I can't find them! My iPhoto has about 17GB of movies, my iTunes has around 20GB, and I've got maybe another 10GB in files within finder – but that's still only half the videos my mac is saying it has? How do I find the rest? I've got 80GB being used by 'other' as well – is that just pages and numbers documents, along with the iOS? Is there a way of finding exactly what all my memory's being allocated to?
I've got the entire mac backed up on an external hard drive, but I'm terrified of deleting anything from the mac in case that fails. I plan on getting a second external HD, but even then I think I'll be too worried (I've heard about so many hard drives continuously failing). How does anyone manage all their stuff?!?
Thank you in advance, for any help you can offer.

Just a slight correction to start, you're not running iOS 7. You're running a version of OS X, iOS is for mobile devices like iPhones and iPads. To find out which version OS OS X you're running click the Apple menu at the top left and select About This Mac.
This http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html should help you understand "Other".

Generating large amounts of XML without running out of memory

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     COLUMNS
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                                                                  then "AA"
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CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW RESULT AS
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insert into bla select * from RESULT;
Sounds pretty easy but can´t get it to work, the DB seems to load a full DOM representation into the RAM every time I perform a select, insert into or use the xmlgen tool. This Representation takes more than 1 GB for a 200 MB XML file and eventually I´m running out of memory with an
ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML PROCESSING
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Best regards

The file import is performed via jdbc, clob and binary storage is possible up to several GB, the OR storage gives me the ORA-22813 when loading files with more than 100 MB. I use a plain prepared statement:
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Workfow Iterate to subprocess runs out of memory

I have a workflow that returns all suspended tasks and then calls a subprocess for each task. The subprocess decides whether the task needs to be deleted and if so it processes the task in various ways before deleting the taskinstance.
I have no issues when there are not too many tasks returned by the query but when the workflow returns 2000+ items, I run out of memory.
What is the best way to workflow to call the subprocess without running out of memory?
Do I need to cleanup something at the end of subprocess?
Do I need to add something in the workflow to beakup the list of tasks into smaller chunks?
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I didnt think that this would put that much stress on the system.
1) Use IDM best practice to generate low memory tasks, use exposedVariables and extendedVariables in manual actions to generate low memory tasks, that will save lots of memory.
No manual action. This is a scheduled task.
2) Run this workflow on dedicated server which is responsible to run this task only.
I have run this when no one else was using the system but that did not help either.
3) You can put some more conditions to get the limited return data which your server can handle in one go.
we normally have 8000 tasks in the system. About 5000 are completed so I can ignore those in the workflow. The rest need to be looked at to determine if we need to update the request. Let's say that I can use a rule to determine that in the workflow before the subprocess is called and I end up with a list of 500 taskinstance names, I think that the process will still run out of memory unless there is some other solution.
2000 task names in a list should not take up that much space. I am pretty sure that the subprocess which determines if the task needs to be deleted is chewing up resources. This is going to be a scheduled task with no manual actions.
My thinking was that workflow calls the subprocess and the subprocess does a lot of work as far as canceling a request, disabling accounts in some cases, auditing and notifying users that their request was cancelled. Upon return to the workflow to get the next taskinstance name, there is probably some variable that keeps getting larger with each iteration.
I have run smaller lists and the flow diagram that returns at the end shows the flowchart for every item that was deleted so that is probably 1 place where the variable keeps getting larger.
Is there a way to clean everything so that each subprocess acts as if it was the 1st and only time it was getting called?
I tried the following at the end of the subprocess but that did not help:
<Action id='0' name='CleanUp'>
<expression>
<set name='WF_CASE_RESULT'/>
</expression>
</Action>
I will try to debug and see what variables are getting larger and larger but any other suggestions are appreciated.

Target has run out of memory on LM3s8962

I'm using the LM3s8962 evaluation kit to record data from the ADC's. I have the system set up so that I use the elemental nodes of the four adc's in a while loop, and replace the values in four different arrays. The arrays are initialize (1x1000 elements) before entering the loop. This works fine.
THE PROBLEM: When I try to make the arrays larger (i.e. initial arrays larger than 1000 points, 4 individual arrays), I get the following error:
Error: Memory allocation failed. The target has run out of memory. [C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2011\CCodeGen\libsrc\blockdiagram\CCGArrSupport2.c at line 253: 2 3
OR
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Th0r wrote:
It looks like you're filling up the flash memory on the LM3S8962 with all of these array initializations. According to page 263 of the LM3S8962 datasheet, that microcontroller has 256 KB of flash memory which you can use to fill up with your code. In addition to your array initializations, some of this space is taken up by the LabVIEW Embedded Module-specific code as well. What datatype are you using in these arrays? Does this error occur upon building or running your code? Thanks for any additional information you can provide!
That's probably it. The error occurs when building the code, before it's actually able to run. If reduce the array size, I'm able to run the code no problem. At the moment, I'm using a long 32 bit integer, which I know realize I can reduce significantly, as my ADC only reads at 10 bits. Do you know if there's a way that I can preallocate the array to a place other than flash?
I've found a fix around it since I last posted, in which I set up a buffer (smaller) and then save the buffer values on the SD card. This works well and I can sample for long periods of time, but it does slow down my overall sampling rate, so I'd like to fix the above problem nonetheless.

Mac Desktop Manager - Device has run out of memory

So, long story short, this is the latest (of a very long string) of error messages. I have been able, with the help of these forums, to troubleshoot all the others.
I am syncing my BB 8120 (v4.5.0.174) to iCal with the Desktop Manager, only set to sync calendar. It simply drops with an error that the 'Device has run out of memory'. Checking the Applications tab shows 17mb of free space.
History:
I got this Blackberry a few months ago, deciding I wanted a robust phone with good battery life that had email.
I use gmail. Apparently this is not compatible with BIS, and had continual problems. This is still unsatisfactory - I have to use the gmail app which causes problems (hanging) and does not support push.
I was dismayed to discover that a Blackberry sync client for Mac had only recently been announced, however I persevered.
When it was released, I started using it, but it has continually given errors on all manner of different combinations.
I recently solved the contacts problem by syncing using the Google sync, which syncs also with my mac over the air.
This is not a solution for the calendars because iCal does not support google calendars well enough for my liking.
The phone sporadically has a spinning hourglass, for what reason(s) I cannot determine, even after battery pulls etc.
Suffice to say I have spent hundreds of hours troubleshooting this phone over the last months. For a phone whose main selling functions are email and organisation, it does neither of these reliably or well.
If I do not solve this problem soon I will return to my old phone which supported everything above more reliably, and had 4 times the battery life to boot. The only thing I would miss is the qwerty keyboard.
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Ah yes, good old Project Manager. There are plenty of times when it causes more problems than it solves.
You might try deleting the following folder:
User/Library/Preferences/Logic/PM Data
If you use Project Manager, it's easy enough to rebuild the table. If you don't then don't worry - just delete it. By the way, if you're into Project Manager or would like to know more, go to the website of the perhaps the most generous man in the Logic world, Edgar Rothermich and grab some of his user manuals.
http://homepage.mac.com/edgarrothermich/Manuals.html
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One thing the iPad lacks is a file manager. There is no file explorer native on the iPad. If you started adding plugin cards, then you add the need for that. And, in PC's, most viruses spread via the file explorer (the definition of a virus is a malicious program that propagates itself across multiple programs)
There are a few drives out there for iDevices. Such as the WiDrive and others.

Why does the iPad 2 run out of memory

Why does the iPad 2 run out of memory?

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You can ...close apps and restart the iPad on occasion. You close apps by double tapping the home button to bring up your recent apps in the multitasking tray. Tap and hold down on any of the icons until they all begin to wiggle. Then tap the minus signs in the corner of the apps to close them. Close all of your apps in that area. Also take note of how many apps are down there. That may have something to do with why the iPad is running out of memory. Tap the home button twice to return to the home screen. Then restart your iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and slide to shut off. To power up, hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
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How can I avoid running out of memory when creating components dynamically

Hello everyone,
Recently, I am planning to design a web application. It will be used by all middle school teachers in a region to make examination papers and it must contain the following main functions.
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4)Allow at least 1,000 teachers to make test papers at the same time. The maximum question number per examination paper is 60.
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A.Using JSF.
B.Using JavaScript and plain JSP[b] without JSF.
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2)I can not find a way to meet the third demand right now. I am eager to know your suggestion.
3)Using JSF, I think, can�ft allow 1,000 teachers to do their own papers at the same time. Because in this scenario, suppose each questionnaire having 60 questions and 4 answers per question, there will be approximately 300,000 HtmlInput objects (1,000X60X(4+1)) creating on the server side. The server must run out of memory undoubtedly. To make things better, we can use a custom component which can be rendered as a whole question including its all optional answers. That is to say, a new custom component on the server side stands for a whole question on the client side. Even so, about 60,000(1,000X60) this type of custom components will be created progressively and dynamically, plus other UISelectOne and UICommand objects, it also can�ft afford for most servers. Do I have to use JavaScript to avoid occupying the server's memory in this way? If so, I have to go back and use JavaScript and plain JSP without JSF.
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Thank you for your quick response, BalusC. I really appreciate your answer.
Yes, you are right. If I manually code the same amount of those components in the JSF pages instead of generating them dynamically, the server will still run out of memory. That is to say, JSF pages might not accommodate a great deal of concurrent visiting. If I upgrade the server to just allow 1,000 teachers making their own test papers at the same time, but when over 2,000 students take the same questionnaire simultaneously, the server will need another upgrading. So I have to do what you have told me, using JS+DOM instead of upgrading the server endlessly.
Best Regards, Ailsa

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First of all: I personally agree with your comments regarding the feedback webpage. But that is out of our hands since this is a user-to-user forum, and there is nothing we users can do about it.
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Since you have a 8 GB system already, why don't you go for Win7 64-bit. Then you can also install Lr 64-bit and that - together with 8 GB of RAM - will bring a great boost in Lr performance.
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dear, i have a question please. if i want to keep a folder of pictures in my icloud account; then delete this folder off my phone would it be deleted from icloud account too?? cause im running out of memory on my iphone
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