Memory and Mavericks...

I´m using Mavericks on my Macbook Pro Late 2008 (2GB RAM) and Activity Monitor shows that 1.99 GB of memory is being used, but the system performance is not bad... Safari, iTunes, Tomb Raider Aniversary (With full quality)... EVERYTHING is working fine. So... Is it a bug on the Activity Monitor? This screenshot shows the battery almost completly used, but any application was opened.

Your computer is operating exactly as it should. Mavericks will use as much RAM as required to operate effectively. If you had 4gB of RAM, Mavericks would use it.
Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

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Hi, I have a refurbished upgraded macbook with 320 GB Disk, 4GB Memory and running Lion OS v 10.7.5. This satisfies the second part of the requirement for installing OS X Mavericks (10.9) but happens to be an early 2008 piece. Can I somehow install 10.9

Hi, I have a refurbished upgraded macbook with 320 GB Disk, 4GB Memory and running Lion OS v 10.7.5. This satisfies the second part of the requirement for installing OS X Mavericks (10.9) but happens to be an early 2008 piece. Can I somehow install 10.9? And why is apple not allowing people like me to try out this installation? Any reason that are too technical that people like me cannot upgrade and handle?
This would solve many apps to run on this.

It's mainly the video card. The Models 2,1 through 4,1 have video cards with non-upgradeable 32bit drivers. The model 5,1 Late 2008 and newer have at least the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 64bit drivers. Mountain Lion and Mavericks require 64bit native drivers. Mountain Lion and Mavericks no longer support Intel's GMA 950 or GMA X3100 graphics processors.
While Lion used some 32 bit and a lot of 64 bit code, Mountain Lion and Mavericks are pure 64 bit, which excludes more systems than Lion did. It's not something you can add memory to, for example, as it involves the base architecture.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57470261-263/older-64-bit-macs-out-of-the-p icture-for-mountain-lion/?tag=mncol;txt
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57387846-263/will-your-mac-run-mountain-lio n/

Just upgraded an iMac with 4GB Memory and Intel Processor from 10.6.8 to Mavericks and Quicktime plays m4v files with stuttering audio

I just upgraded an iMac with 4GB Memory and 3.33 Ghz Intel Core Duo Processor from 10.6.8 to Mavericks. I now have Quicktime 10.3 which plays m4v files with stuttering audio. This is a nightmare as I use Quicktime a lot in my research. I have seen similar threads but so far only reporting the problem. For now I have installed Quicktime Player 10.7 (which appears in utilities, leaving Quicktime 10.3 in the main applications list) which plays the same videos with no problem, but it would be good to know if anyone has managed to find a workaround at all, or know if Apple have plans to do anything about it?

Slow performance after installing Yosemite on an older Mac is often caused by inadequate memory. Although you can install the upgrade on a Mac with 2 GB of memory, experience has shown that at least 4 GB is needed for full performance.
Select About This Mac from the Apple menu. If you have less than 4 GB of memory, and your model has upgradable memory, install as much as it can take, or at least that much. Any reputable RAM vendor will have a web form in which you can select the Mac model and be directed to compatible parts.

HT201364 Snow Leopard upgrade to Maverick because I need 2 GB of memory and 8GB of available space. How can I meet these requirements or whichever one is needed. Alex

I was invited to upgrade Snow Leopard to Maverick but as is the way of these things am not actually allowed to when I try as I am told I need 2 GB memory and 8 GB space (although I suspect it may be one or other but not both). Anyway it is all double Dutch to me:can anyone help me meet the requirements please?

If you don't have 2 GBs of installed RAM, then you need to buy more RAM. You can install:
Maximum Memory
6.0 GB (Actual) 4.0 GB (Apple)
Memory Slots
2 - 200-pin PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 SO-DIMM
You can purchase new RAM to replace what you have at:
OWC
DataMem
Crucial.com
You need at least 15 GBs of free space on your hard drive. If you don't have that much, then your drive is too full. Either remove data you no longer need, transfer files to an external hard drive then delete them from this drive, or install a larger hard drive.
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

HT201364 I have 2 gigs of memory and 8 gigs of storage why can't i download mavericks

I have a macook air, 2 gigs of memory and 8 gigs of storage why can't i download mavericks

Does your MacBook Air meet the other requirements?
To install Mavericks, you need one of these Macs:
iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later),
MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
Xserve (Early 2009)
Your Mac also needs:
OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard v10.6.8 already installed
2 GB or more of memory
8 GB or more of available space

HT201364 i can't download os x mavericks it says that i need 2gb or more of memory and 8 gb or more of available space i have a macbook pro retina display and i have 4gb of memory?

it says that i need 2gb or more of memory and 8 gb or more of available space i have a macbook pro retina display and i have 4gb of memory?

it says that i need 2gb or more of memory and 8 gb or more of available space i have a macbook pro retina display and i have 4gb of memory?

I have a 2008 Mac Book Pro with 2gb of memory and it wont let me install mountain lion or mavericks...why not?

I cannot get Lion to install on my 2008 Mac Book pro. It has 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM of memory and has a 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor. Is there still something that I am missing?

OS X 10.9.4 is the current release of the operating system. Older versions are not available from the app store. Does your system meet the requirements for OS X 10.9?
Barry

HT201364 To install Mavericks, you need at least 2 GB of memory and I only have 1 GB. Can I load more memory?

Can I load more memory and where do I purchase it?

Yes, you can, though you'd need to tell us your exact model of iMac before we could tell you specifically what memory you will need and how much you can expand to. There are a number of good vendors; I've used Crucial and Other World Computing (OWC). Both have been of high quality and good service, and either can tell you exactly what you'll need for your iMac. Other folks here may have additional vendor recommendations.
I'd definitely recommend expanding beyond 2GB. It won't cost that much more and your performance is almost sure to be better than if you just get the minimum 2GB.
Regards.

I keep getting told that i have run out of application memory and have to force quit applications. Not sure why this happens or what I do to fix it.

I keep getting told that I have no more application memory and have to force quit applications. Why does this happen and how do I fix it? This issue has only started since I started using Mavericks 10.9.2.

Have you checked how much space you have left on your HDD? You may find some useful information here:
pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.htmlhttp://
Ciao.

Yosemite - says "not enough application memory - and closes all open applications

Since the day I installed Yosemite I have had problems. First, some other file was downloaded when I did the Yosemite install which crashed the computer. It had to go in for repair. Once that was remedied, I frequently get an error message "Not enough
application Memory and it starts automatically shutting down all of my programs. Normally, first to go is Mail, then Google (Safari would not work with Maverick - it would freeze) then Photoshop and whatever else is open. I did not have this problem with Maverick. This is a pain!
I am working on a 2009 Mac Pro with 24 MB Ram.
Any ideas about what is going on and how to remedy it. I would appreciate it. Thanks

There is excessive swapping of data between physical memory (that is, the memory chips on the logic board) and virtual memory (one or more files on the startup volume.) That activity is relatively slow and causes the whole system to be less responsive. It can happen for two reasons:
          A long-running process with a memory leak (a kind of bug)
          Not enough memory for your usage pattern
Tracking down a memory leak can be difficult, and it may come down to a process of elimination.
These instructions are for OS X 10.9 and later. Some details may be slightly different for earlier versions of OS X.
When you notice the swap activity, open the Activity Monitor application and select All Processes from the View menu, if it's not already selected. Select the Memory tab. Click the heading of the Real Mem column in the process table twice to sort the table with the highest value at the top. If you don't see that column, select
          View ▹ Columns ▹ Real Memory
from the menu bar.
If one process (excluding "kernel_task") is using much more memory than all the others, that could be an indication of a leak. A better indication would be a process that continually grabs more and more real memory over time without ever releasing it. Here is an example of how it's done.
The processes named "Safari Web Content" render web pages for Safari. They use a lot of memory and may leak if certain Safari extensions or third-party web plugins are installed. Consider them prime suspects.
Another process often implicated in memory leaks is "inkjet4" or "inkjet8," which is a component of the HP printing software. If it's present, force-quit the process in Activity Monitor to solve the problem temporarily. Empty the print queues in the Printers & Scanners preference pane (which has a slightly different name in each recent version of OS X.) If you don't use an HP printer, remove the software. Otherwise, if the problem is recurrent, update the software (which may not help) or contact HP support.
"Wired" memory should be a small part of the total. That memory is not swapped, but it makes less physical memory available which may then result in swapping. If you have a lot of wired memory, that's usually an indication of a memory leak in a third-party program that modifies the operating system at a low level. Ask for guidance in that case.
If you don't have an obvious memory leak, your options are to install more memory (if possible) or to run fewer programs simultaneously.
The next suggestion is only for users familiar with the shell. For a more precise, but potentially misleading, test, run the following command:
sudo leaks -nocontext -nostacks process | grep total
where process is the name of a process you suspect of leaking memory. Almost every process will leak some memory; the question is how much, and especially how much the leak increases with time. I can’t be more specific. See the leaks(1) man page and the Apple developer documentation for details.

My Mac Book Pro has just had a new memory and solid state drive installed. After the installation, the Lightroom tools all became grey. There is no longer any color on the screen other than my picture. Even the color sliders are grey. Can you please help

My MacBook Pro just had a new memory and solid state drive installed. Since the installation, the Lightroom tools are now all grey. Even the color sliders are grey. Please help!

My guess is that your operating system got updated to Mavericks and that you are running an old version of Lightroom:
Sliders are white, look different | Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Be aware of a Lightroom bug with color management in mavericks that makes shadows too deep in the Develop module: Jao's photo blog: Serious color management bug in Mac OS 10.9 "Mavericks" and Jao's photo blog: Further quantification of the Mavericks color management problem.

Aperture 3.5 and Mavericks on MacBook Pro mid 2009

I feel a bit unsecure whether or not to upgrade to Mavericks as long as there are reports about problems with Aperture on older machines in version 3.5. I currently run Aperture 3.4.5 on my MacBook Pro mid 2009 with 8 GB RAM with OS 10.7.5.
From the discussion I have understood that I have to upgrade to Aperture 3.5 when I upgrade to Mavericks.
Is it safe to upgrade, or is it better to wait.

Frank Caggiano wrote:
Yep as with any new release there are people reporting problems. Some are legitimate some are the normal noise every new release seems to draw out.
And again I will state that for the majority of users 3.5 and Maverick is working fine. To state as you did that this is another low point for Aperture (when were the other low points in your opinion?) is really not much help.
The last low point was Aperture 3.0. It created chaos. You must must have been around then and saw it. Introducing faces and switching it on by default killing performance which combined with the memory leaks then crashed Aperture corrupting the libraries etc.
It needed 3 0.x updates in 2 months to get it functional (and then with work-arounds). Here's the first couple of lines from the updates:
"Aperture 3.0.1 update improves overall stability and addresses a number of issues in Aperture 3, including: upgrading libraries from earlier versions of Aperture, importing libraries from iPhoto, importing photos directly from a camera, memory usage when processing heavily-retouched photos, face recognition processing,"
"Aperture 3.0.2 update improves overall stability and fixes issues in a number of areas. The key areas addressed include: upgrading Aperture 1.x and 2.x libraries, importing libraries from iPhoto or from earlier versions of Aperture"
"Aperture 3.0.3 update improves overall stability and fixes issues in a number of areas. etc"
It wasn't until October that we finally got:
"Aperture 3.1 update greatly improves the overall stability and performance while fixing many major issues"
And since then it's been superb again. Until 3.5.
I don't come here to bad-mouth Aperture, I come to help and learn. The OP expressed concerns about the upgrade based on stability issues reported here. Working with Aperture every day, I concur, I'm encountering the issues daily (because they affect areas I use) and to me it's been a step back closer to the 3.0.x days (but not as bad) rather than a step forward.
But I'm just one person. If others report they are not seeing the issues, that will help the OP get a better balance.
But I believe in calling it how I see it and despite being a huge Apertue fan, the 3.5 issues have dissapointed me. It seemed to be a simple maintenance update, but has only created issues for me, not added or solved anything I need. I only upgraded because it seemed sensible to install the 'Mavericks' version after installing Mavericks. But if I could go back to 3.4.5 I would. I simply think Apple did a poor job here and see no reason to say otherwise.
But I detect from your post that my post may have antagonised you, so let me apologise for that as it was not my intent. I have a lot of respect for you regulars, and all the help you give people.
Regards,
Andy

Why is Dashboard using up tons of memory and freezing my computer?

I was having this problem on my early 2012 Macbook Pro running Mavericks, and now it is happening on my refurbished late 2013 iMac. I did some research into this and some people were saying that if you run weather apps or similar on Dashboard which constantly update data, it can cause Dashboard to start eating up all your memory. So I ended up disabling Dashboard completely on my Macbook Pro and haven't had any similar issues on that machine. But my iMac has 24 GB of RAM and I'd really like to keep Dashboard running because I like to use it to check the weather or my calendar or use the calculator. Is this a glitch with Mavericks? Has anyone reported this on Yosemite? It's happening more frequently and unless I have Activity Monitor open where I can forcibly quit Dashboard, all my programs start locking up and the whole system becomes unusable and I have to force reset it. You'd think Apple would have fixed this by now. At first I thought it was an issue with my Macbook Pro, but now that I'm seeing the same problems on my blazing fast iMac, I think this is a Mavericks glitch. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Running OSX 10.9.5 on a late 2013 iMac with 24 GB of RAM, 3.5 Ghz i7 processor, and 4GB Geforce GTX 780 card.

So it looks like the removal of the .plist file didn't fix the problem. I am starting to notice a potential correlation though. I've been keeping Activity Monitor open to check the status of Dashboard to try and catch it before it overloads the memory. It seems that the issue arises generally when the CPU is undertaking an intensive task. Recently I caught Dashboard overloading the memory while I was doing some intensive video compression. The iMac's internal fans started whirring so I went into Activity Monitor initially to see how much memory the compression software was using up. That's when I saw Dashboard starting to eat away memory, and it kept increasing more and more. The compression software was only using about a gig of memory (though a fairly high % of the CPU) while Dashboard steadily increased to 4, 5, 6 gigs and so on. Even after the compression software was done and the CPU started to cool down, Dashboard continued to eat memory. I've attached two screenshots (before compression was done and after) and you'll notice the memory usage of Dashboard (the video compressor was using the ffmpeg process listed)
Here are some system notes I grabbed from Dashboard in one of the tabs from Activity Monitor by double clicking on the process. Maybe these will help solve the problem?
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/DashboardClient.app/Con tents/MacOS/DashboardClient
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DashboardClient.framework/Versions/A/Dashboard Client
/usr/share/icu/icudt51l.dat
/System/Library/Keyboard Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-L.d at
/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.IntlDataCache.le.kbdx
/private/var/db/mds/messages/se_SecurityMessages
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Generic Gray Gamma 2.2 Profile.icc
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRGB Profile.icc
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Generic Gray Profile.icc
/Library/Widgets/Unit Converter.wdgt/DB LCD Temp-Black.ttf
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db-shm
/Library/Widgets/Calendar.wdgt/Calendar.widgetplugin/Contents/MacOS/Calendar
/Library/Widgets/Unit Converter.wdgt/UC-LCD.ttf
/Library/Widgets/Unit Converter.wdgt/ConverterPlugin.widgetplugin/Contents/MacOS/ConverterPlugin
/Library/Widgets/Dictionary.wdgt/Dictionary.widgetplugin/Contents/MacOS/Dictiona ry
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Generic RGB Profile.icc
/System/Library/Fonts/HelveticaNeue.dfont
/System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont
/System/Library/Fonts/LucidaGrande.ttc
/Library/Fonts/Baskerville.ttc
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ArtFile. bin
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fram ework/Versions/A/Resources/Extras2.rsrc
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SArtFile .bin
/Library/Fonts/Futura.ttc
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Calculate.framework/Versions/A/Calculate
/System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont
/private/var/folders/lz/xymjhj3955l_05603k8kp14m0000gp/C/com.apple.LaunchService s-044502.csstore
/dev/null
/dev/null
/dev/null
count=2, state=0x2
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db-wal
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db-shm
/Users/Philip/Library/Widgets
/Applications
FNetwork.defaultStorageSession
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db-wal
/Users/Philip/Applications
->0x4a5646e02860346f
->0x4a5646e02860427f
/Library/Widgets
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fram ework/Versions/A/Resources/Extras2.rsrc

RAM and Mavericks?

My question is, how much RAM is Mavericks supposed to use itself? I just installed Mavericks and, upon starting up my computer, close to 5GB of my RAM was being used. I have a total of 8GB RAM, on a late-2012 21" iMac. I find this to be odd because on Mountion Lion only about 2.5GB would be used once I booted into my computer.
This is my computer as soon as it boots up, with no programs open:
Is that to be expected from Mavericks?

alwayslikethis wrote:
My question is, how much RAM is Mavericks supposed to use itself? I just installed Mavericks and, upon starting up my computer, close to 5GB of my RAM was being used. I have a total of 8GB RAM, on a late-2012 21" iMac. I find this to be odd because on Mountion Lion only about 2.5GB would be used once I booted into my computer.
This is my computer as soon as it boots up, with no programs open:
Is that to be expected from Mavericks?
It's a tough call but from what I have seen and read OS X Mavericks handles memory much more differently than any other version of OS X released before. I too see higher memory consumption in Mavericks on my 2010 MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM but the computer does not feel any different in terms of responsiveness to OS X Mountain Lion. My take is that now the important measurement in Activity Monitor that the user needs to watch while using their Macs is the Memory Pressure chart, that I think will go higher as the system memory becomes more stressed.
According to the keynote by Apple today the amount of memory used by OS X Mavericks does not matter as much because if the OS is in a situation where RAM is running low, Mavericks will compress the memory from the unused apps to give the needy app the necessary memory and with no user interaction.
Hope this clarifies and you can learn more about OS X Mavericks new features here:
http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/#advanced-tech

HT201364 is there any way to update to OS X from a non-aluminum Macbook from 2008 that has the 2 gb of memory and snow leopard installed, with 8 gb of free space?

is there any way to update to OS X from a non-aluminum Macbook from 2008 that has the 2 gb of memory and snow leopard installed, with 8 gb of free space?

The Early 2008 MacBook can only go up to Lion...the compatibility requirements for Mountain Lion and Mavericks are the same http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/ which says Late 2008 MacBook.

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