In theory it can handle applications that wants lots of memory, but there are limits.įree disks space for page and swap files. It will use 50+GB of disk space to page out virtual memory to disk. If you look at Applications -> Utilties -> Activity Monitor -> View (menu) -> All Processes -> Memory (tab), you can see what processes are using lots of memory.Ĭan the MacBook Air M1(8Gb Memory) even handle Graphics editing like DaVinci Resolve fusion? Generally, if there is a memory leak (process asks for a virtual address range, uses the addresses, forgets to give them back, asks for another virtual address range, uses the addresses, wash, rinse, repeat), eventually there are so many virtual memory page table entries trying to keep track of the virtual addresses, that macOS no longer has memory available for applications, and you get the "Your system has run out of application memory" Virtual memory address space requires macOS to create Virtual Memory Page Tables in the kernel address space to keep track of the application virtual addresses given out. Depending on how much virtual memory is being called for, anything under 50-100GB free may trigger the message.ī) A process (or set of processes) have asked macOS for excessive amounts of virtual memory address space. This is generally not the case, but I mention because if you do have very low free storage, it might apply.
There are 2 reasons for the "Your system has run out of application memory" dialog box.Ī) Your boot disk has very low free storage, and macOS cannot create page/swap files to offload virtual memory contents to disk.
0 kommentar(er)
