Warning Your system is running low on process virtual memory space

Hi,
I face this problem when i use a flat file source with about 19000 records (about 6 mb size).
The job starts there is no error message but it just halts no progress....
Can anyone help.

Greetings Narendra,
It may help if you were to explain in more detail the software product you are encountering this issue. There are about 500 different products that might be encountering this issue. Specifying which product you are using will assist the Forum Team in providing an appropriate response.
Thank you,
Rob
Technical Engineer
Customer Assurance

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Job in BODS is failing with an error " Your system is running low on process virtual memory".

hello,
I am facing an error with one of my job which is running on BODS server. The job is failing daily since last one year with the same error " Your system is running low on process virtual memory". We checked with team which deals with space issue and the space is sufficient enough.
Please help me with this error and what can be done to do away with this.
Regards,
Ritu Sharma

Greetings Narendra,
It may help if you were to explain in more detail the software product you are encountering this issue. There are about 500 different products that might be encountering this issue. Specifying which product you are using will assist the Forum Team in providing an appropriate response.
Thank you,
Rob
Technical Engineer
Customer Assurance

"Your system has run out of application memory"! Help, please! Thanks!

Hi,
Just got the unsettling message saying "Your system has run out of application memory" and I was instructed to close down applications I wasn't using, including browsers, or I might have problems with my computer. Yeesh. This is scary. Is the solution to buy more RAM? Bear with me, I really don't know what to do, and I'd appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Kcat
Tried to update my product listings, but it wouldn't work. I have OS X Mavericks, 10.9.2 on my iMac desktop.

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 ("Mavericks.") The procedure 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.

"System running low on direct mapped memory " Error on Console

Hi,
Our ACE Primary device got hang its not responded to management or console access. After rebooting the device everything is came to normal, but we are getting the following error from console.
901001 <2>Dec 11 15:42:20 kernel: System running low on direct mapped memory
901001 <2>Dec 11 15:42:20 kernel: Please issue 'show processes memory' and 'show system kmem' to diagnose further
901001 <2>Dec 11 15:42:21 kernel: Available CP memory reached below 5 percent threshold, TotalMemFree: 312201216 bytes, High MemFree: 305004544 bytes
Kindly suggest why this error message is generatting and it will effect the box performance.
SoftWare version : A4(2.0)

Hi Ranjith,
It does seem to be the DDTS you are hitting. Please discuss with your account team and upgrade for the fix.
You may also be interested in related DDTS: Both of the below DDTS are related. Reload of the device fixes the issue but only for a while. You may have to reload when you see this message again and available memory is below 15%.
CSCtx41399
CSCtz29117
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Kanwal

What can I do when it says "your system has run out of application memory?

What can I do when it says "your system has run out of application memory?"

The message has nothing to do with low disk space.
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 ("Mavericks.") The procedure 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.

I've updated my Macbook Pro and my iMac with Maverick, updating the various apps. On my Macbook, everything functions perfectly. On my iMac, I get the Your System has Run out of Application Memory, and it's based our Mail, the only app not updated. Ideas?

Maverick and Your System message
I've updated my Macbook Pro and my iMac with Maverick, updating the various apps (Pages, Aperture, iPhoto, Numbers & iMovie, too) in the process.
On my Macbook, everything functions perfectly. On my iMac, I get the Your System has Run out of Application Memory message. But it's not Calendar, it's Mail that not only won't open, but when it does now, it takes the entire system out with it.
I open Safari, and it works. I open Firefox, and it works and Safari still works. I open Calendar and it works, Safari and Firefox continue to work. I open Reminders, and everything still works.
I open Aperture, and it opens Finder instead, showing the 3.5 update that was installed two days ago (and Aperture has functioned), but doesn't seem to update the app; after about 20 seconds the update disappears and I can now open Aperture and it shows I'm now opening the updated Aperture, which it didn't show before.
I click on Mail, and the cursor spins for ten minutes. The mail window finally opens, but the cursor spins and does not connect to upload new mail, and I finally Force Quit Mail. Since the Maverick update, even though Mail was not updated (and maybe because Mail was not updated), I have been able to receive emails twice, and then the program crashed.
Besides the Aperture app, Pages didn't fully update on the iMac, and I had to remove the old Pages icon from the dock after the new program loaded up from Applications.
Any ideas?

Maverick and Your System message
I've updated my Macbook Pro and my iMac with Maverick, updating the various apps (Pages, Aperture, iPhoto, Numbers & iMovie, too) in the process.
On my Macbook, everything functions perfectly. On my iMac, I get the Your System has Run out of Application Memory message. But it's not Calendar, it's Mail that not only won't open, but when it does now, it takes the entire system out with it.
I open Safari, and it works. I open Firefox, and it works and Safari still works. I open Calendar and it works, Safari and Firefox continue to work. I open Reminders, and everything still works.
I open Aperture, and it opens Finder instead, showing the 3.5 update that was installed two days ago (and Aperture has functioned), but doesn't seem to update the app; after about 20 seconds the update disappears and I can now open Aperture and it shows I'm now opening the updated Aperture, which it didn't show before.
I click on Mail, and the cursor spins for ten minutes. The mail window finally opens, but the cursor spins and does not connect to upload new mail, and I finally Force Quit Mail. Since the Maverick update, even though Mail was not updated (and maybe because Mail was not updated), I have been able to receive emails twice, and then the program crashed.
Besides the Aperture app, Pages didn't fully update on the iMac, and I had to remove the old Pages icon from the dock after the new program loaded up from Applications.
Any ideas?

'Your system has run out of application memory'?!

I've seen many users experiencing this same problem throughout the community, but none of the fixes have given me a permanent solution. Details of the machine are below, as well as what happens when the problem hits/triggers.
MBP Retina running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 (occurred in previous versions as well, thought the latest update would help but it didn't)
15-Inches Mid 2014 with 16 GB of Ram
Been using this Mac for good 6 months now, and one fine day of normal usage the whole system seems really laggy and slow and all of a sudden i'm unable to access anything and barely move my mouse. Then, a window pops out, telling me "Your system has run out of application memory", gracefully showing me that I have to force quit all my programmes for me to just stare at my desktop in utter disappointment.
I've been using Yosemite for awhile now (updated few days since the release) and haven't encountered any major issues, this being the first. Reading through many threads many have said that the problem lies with opening the Mail app, yet I haven't touched that app in months. I've also tried resetting the PRAM on my machine when it happens and the problem comes back again after several minutes of normal usage (iTunes, App Store). Checking the memory usage with the Memory Clean app, it tells me I'm down to a measly '15.58 MB' of memory, and it justfluctuates at that until I give it a restart again. This can't keep happening - I can barely use the Mac for 10 minutes without having to restart it, only to be able to use it only again for another 10 minutes.
Opening Activity Monitor tells me that mds_stores is the main root of the problem, yet I can't seem to shut the process down. I've googled and many say that mds_stores is spotlight indexing, but taking up all 16 GB of ram? That shouldn't be the case. Is there a fix to this? Does Apple know of its existence?
Included some screenshots below:

Step 1
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -F '$Time $Message' -k Sender mdworker -o -k Message Rne Norm -k Sender mds | tail | pbcopy
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear.
The output of the command will be automatically copied to the Clipboard. If the command produced no output, the Clipboard will be empty. Paste into a reply to this message.
The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.
If any personal information appears in the output, anonymize before posting, but don’t remove the context.
Step 2
Enter the following command as in Step 1 and post the output:
mdutil -as 2>&- | pbcopy
You can then quit Terminal.
Step 3
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Terminal. In the Console window, look under the heading DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION on the left for crash reports related to Spotlight. If you don't see that heading, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar. A Spotlight crash report has a name beginning in "mds" or "mdworker" and ending in ".crash". Select the most recent such report, if any, from the System and User subcategories and post the entire contents—the text, please, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post any other kind of diagnostic report, such as hang logs—they're very long and not helpful.

Your system has run out of application memory Premiere pro cc 2014

Hi,
I've been getting the "your system has run out of application memory" message while working on a new project in pr pro cc.
Here's what i've done so far:
Updated to OS X 10.9.5 and restarted computer
went into my activity monitor and stopped programs that were taking up memory, but that didn't solve the problem the message would pop up over and over again.
this is the first time i've seen this message. I installed the universal free trial red giant plug ins for PR Pro . I'm starting to think that the plug ins are the problem.
I used several of the universal plugins from red giant on my entire project. I was able to export the project twice w no problems but then when i went back into the project and the notification kept popping up!
I'm using
PLS HELP!!!
thanks!

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
In the Console window, look under the heading DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION on the left for crash or panic reports. If you don't see that heading, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
A crash report has a name that begins with the name of the crashed process and ends in ".crash". It may be under either of the two subcategories, "System" and "User." A panic report has a name that begins with "Kernel" and ends in ".panic".
Select the most recent of each and post the entire contents — the text, please, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post any other kind of diagnostic report, such as a hang log — they're very long and not helpful.

Discoverer Plus4i - Exporting to Excel - Your server is running low

We are currently running Discoverer Plus 4i.
We have a couple of large reports that we want to export to Excel.
We retrieve the report and then carry out the 'Export to Excel' action. The export starts to run but during the 'sort' phase we are getting the error "Your server is running low on virtual memory".
The largest report is currently retrieving about 64K rows but will grow by at least another 20K.
I appreciate we could restrict the retrieval through parameters but we were wondering if anyone had encountered this before and if there are any solutions out there.

Hi,
Any chance any of your items are created using custom functions/packages that return varchar's? If so, check you max char fetched (admin edition - properties tab, each item in folder(s) used by the report). The columns created by custom functions/packages will probably be 4000 characters. Excel doesn't like this. This also slows down your report. Wrap your custom function call in a substr and reduce to the correct size. This might fix your problem.
If you don't use custom functions/packages in this report, oh well, just a thought.
Regards,
Nancy

Insufficient process virtual memory

I am on Data Services 12.1.1.1, trying to run a AR Rapidmart on a Windows 2003 server. The target is Oracle 10g. I am getting the following error :
(12.1) 07-14-09 15:25:08 (E) (5720:7048) SYS-170117: |Dataflow DF_BillingDistributionFact_OA
Cannot continue executing the job due to insufficient process virtual memory.
We have not made any code changes - just trying to run it out of the box. BTW, we also have installed GL and PO and they have run successfully.
Just a FYI - I have the virtual memory on the Windows server bumped up to 30 GB. Can you help me figure out what the issue is.
Thanks
RITWIK RAY

Windows can allocate up to 2GB of memory PER PROCESS. So the 30GB are nice but don't help.
Also, the RapidMarts are general purpose, one customer has three material with millions of orders, the other customer has millions of materials with one order per year - bt a big one.
So you might need to optimize the dataflow do your needs. Can you explain what the particular dataflow is doing? Any cached lookups in the dataflow that would read large volumes of data?

"System is running low on memory" when exporting.

I'm using Premiere Pro CS3 (which, I'm aware has issues with system memory due to it being a 32bit program.)
It only seems to happen when I tie all my video segments together. It warns me to "save my project and proceed with caution," but as I export, it gets to 300 frames out of 12,000 and the entire program just crashes. All up they'd equal 2GB at the most with my export settings.
I've stopped any non-essential programs and applications, including my anti-virus out of desperation. (How clever)
I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
Intel Core i7 3.60GHz CPU
16.0GB DDR3 RAM
60GB SSD as my OS (with 4.7GB free)
And am saving them to a 1TB HDD with more than enough room free.
As I'm exporting, my CPU and RAM are running well below 30%
As far as memory is concerned there's plenty of it. But, is there a way to increase how much Premiere Pro uses, similar to hosting a Minecraft server?
Or perhaps just tricking it?

As you are using PrPro CS 3, though on a 64-bit OS, I would also look at the Windows Virtual Memory (Page File) settings.
What is the size set for the Page File?
Where is the Page File located on your system?
Do you let Windows dynamically manage the Page File, or have you manually set its size?
For video editing, I set my Page File fairly large, and remove the Windows dynamic Page File management. That has worked well for me, and many others.
Good luck, and I am sure that Jim Simon will Move your post to the CS 4 & Earlier Sub-forum.
Hunt
[Edit] PS - Jim DID Move the post, while I was typing.

System Resources Running Low

I have a Satellite A105-S4064 model, XP version. I keep getting the following message and I do not know what it means. If anyone can help me out I would appreciate it. I have plenty of memory left and battery checks out fine.
Message reads:
"System Resources are running low. Close some applications running on this computer."
May not be these exact words, but close to it.

Satellite A505-S6980
someone reopens the computer later, I get a message that says...
You have Windows set to do what when the lid is closed? I set mine to Do Nothing.
Control Panel > Power Options > Choose what closing the lid does
-Jerry

What's in the JVM Process's Memory Space?

Hello
I'm noticing the following behavior on an NT system. On
application startup, I see
Total Heap 9 MB
Used Heap 5.5 MB
java.exe memory (from NT Task Manager) 36 MB
After a "login" operation which loads a few more
classes:
Total Heap 12.5 MB
Used Heap 8.2 MB
java.exe memory (from NT Task Manager) 53 MB
Heap memory leaks have been ruthlessly suppressed
(thanks to OptimizeIt and careful programming). The
behavior I do not understand is that the NT process
(java.exe) increased in size by 17 MB when the Java
heap increased by only 3 MB. The .jar file in which the
application resides is less than 1 MB, so this 14 MB
growth can not be attributed to new classes being
loaded.
Does anyone know what is going into the process
memory space of java.exe? It tends to grow larger
and larger.
Should I even care? Do I want a large allocation of
process memory for java.exe, or will that hamper
performance of machines with less physical memory?
Posts on related topics in this forum have sometimes
advocated allocating a lot of memory to the JVM with
-X options.
Thanks

Hello
I am facing exactly the same problem on NT. However, on 2000 Server this problem doesn't seem to exist. Are you, by any chance, using JNI? We are extensively using JNI in our Servlets and found that there is definitely some momory leak there. We could not figure out any substantial leak at Java end. In NT's "Task Manager" java.exe is always listed first and very rarely the memory usage seems to come down. On 2000 Server the performance is far better.
Please visit this link:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=33&thread=211330
Regards
Manish Bhatnagar

Safari quits unexpectantly and your system has run out of application memory

I recently had the Apple Store rebuild my powerbook and they fixed my video and also replaced many other parts. Now my laptop seems fine except that I keep getting these two problems that only resolve if I force quit all my applications and restart the computer. The current OS IS 10.9.
2.6 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM. Toshiba 500 GB SATA hard drive wiped by the Apple Store and OS 10.8 installed.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the crashed process. The report name starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report — they're very long and not helpful.

Reg: Virtual Memory Problem in BOData Integrator XI System

Hello,
We are currently extracting data from a table with around 830,000 records and performing the necessary analysis and place it on our reporting database. While processing the data in our BODI XI batch jobs we are receiving the following error. The ulimit -m is set to unlimited. Is there any other setting which I should look out to resolve this issue. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Vijay.
Error :
=====
(11.5) 09-24-09 17:11:56 (W) (1626232:0258) SYS-170114: memoryMonitor
                                                        Warning: Your system is running low on process virtual memory space. Available virtual memory is <2025> megabytes.
(11.5) 09-24-09 17:11:56 (W) (1626232:0258) SYS-170114: memoryMonitor
                                                        Warning: Your system is running low on process virtual memory space. Available virtual memory is <2025> megabytes.
(11.5) 09-24-09 17:11:57 (W) (1626232:0258) SYS-170114: memoryMonitor
                                                        Warning: Your system is running low on process virtual memory space. Available virtual memory is <2025> megabytes.
(11.5) 09-24-09 17:11:58 (W) (1626232:0258) SYS-170114: memoryMonitor
                                                        Warning: Your system is running low on process virtual memory space. Available virtual memory is <2025> megabytes.
(11.5) 09-24-09 17:11:59 (E) (1626232:0258) SYS-170117: memoryMonitor
                                                        Cannot continue executing the job due to insufficient process virtual memory.
(11.5) 09-24-09 17:12:00 (E) (852142:0001) SYS-170117: |Session LATAM_MATERIALMASTER_PULL|Workflow WF_LATAM_MM_Extract|Dataflow DF_LATAM_MM_Extract_Staging
                                                       1-4-Cannot continue executing the job due to insufficient process virtual memory.
(11.5) 09-24-09 17:12:03 (E) (852142:0001) SYS-170117: |Session LATAM_MATERIALMASTER_PULL|Workflow WF_LATAM_MM_Extract|Dataflow DF_LATAM_MM_Extract_Staging
                                                       1-4-Cannot continue executing the job due to insufficient process virtual memory.

Hi,
Can you please check whether the server is running or is it in a starting state.
I believe that your server has not completely started . Please check.
Thanks & Regards,
Vijith

Warning Your system is running low on process virtual memory space

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