Just today my M2 MBA 13 inch with Ventura 13.5.2 began tomshow error messages that system is t=running out of memory despite having 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD with only 200 GB used. no problems like this before but it has happened several times and only had MS Office, Mail, Photos and safari open I did most recent update when it was issued otherwise MBA is OK. can anyone help ?
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MBA M2 running out of system memory
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Take a screenshot of the error message. When it appears, press these keys all at the same time - command-shift-3 - save the pic and post it here. I suspect this error message isn't coming from macOS but from some sketchy web site you may have gone to.
macOS does show errors like that, usually when a process has used a stupid amount of RAM. We use Enterprise Connect at my work to help people manage their passwords and occasionally one of its processes will start using 20Gb of RAM (on a machine that only has 16GB) and that box will pop up. For example...
It is best to open Activity Monitor and see what's causing the issue.
Hence the request for OP to post screenshot. Let’s see what they are dealing with.
That's exactly the message I was getting - have not had this since thankfully - I had MS Office, Acrobat Pro Mail Calendar and photos open but was using Mai at the times it happened - maybe the risky e mail may have done it as there was a lot of stuff I my junk mail and I was I process of deleting it message by message
Thanks everyone
It’s back again afteer updating to yesterdays latest Mac OS Somona !!
only using MS Word and had Excel open - just closed these and i5 and it was ok