27 September 2026

Out of Application Memory...

A screenshot snippet showing portions of the 'About this Mac' and 'Force Quit Applications' dialog boxes which include:  MacBook Pro 14-Inch, 2021 Chip - Apple M1 Pro Memory - 16 GB Startup disk Macintosh HD Serial number <redacted> macOS Golden Gate 27.0  Force Quit Applications Your system has run out of application memory. To avold problems with your computer, quit any applications you are not using. <apps and memory redacted>

Now that's an error message I've not seen for a long time (to paraphrase Obi Wan Kenobi). In fact, I can't actually remember ever getting this kind of error in recent memory.

I found the error this morning when I unlocked the MacBook, as I'd forgotten to shut it down.

I had a fair few apps open, but the one consuming the RAM was Safari which had 2.2GB in use. Kind of weird as it only had five tabs open (3x DriveThru RPG, a static blog page and a Backerkit confirmation). Next biggest after that was Discord at 2GB and Music at 660MB. Hope this isn't going to be an ongoing thing for Golden Gate.

And how on earth do Safari and Discord use so much RAM?!

I'm also curious if you can open the Force Quit Dialog and have it show memory usage like this did: Esc+Opt+Cmd just shows the apps by default.

27 September 2026



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