Your system has run out of application memory - messages began to appear after 11.6.1 upgrade (from 11.6); Facetime appears to be the root cause

[cfm56d7b]

The Activity Monitor shows that Facetime is using 85 GB of memory which means that the OS is paging most of this memory to the hard disk. My 2020 MBPro 2.3 GHz has 16 GB of RAM.

Facetime is configured to allow phone calls to be answered on the computer and I initiate / accept all calls via the computer. I sense Facetime has a memory leak somewhere in the Continuity code.

Anyone else with the same issue?

 

[MikeDr206]

I hadn’t realized this occurred in Big Sur… people are having this issue with other apps in Monterey.

Your system has run out of application memory – error on Macs - 9to5Mac

A number of Mac users are seeing an error message: 'Your system has run out of application memory.' The error is caused by ...

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[cfm56d7b]

I hadn’t realized this occurred in Big Sur… people are having this issue with other apps in Monterey.

Your system has run out of application memory – error on Macs - 9to5Mac

A number of Mac users are seeing an error message: 'Your system has run out of application memory.' The error is caused by ...

9to5mac.com

This error will be displayed for any application for which OS is unable to obtain additional memory (the exact mechanics how MacOS allocates virtual memory are only known by Apple). The culprit is however another application and Activity Monitor will show it. Right click on column name in Activity Monitory add additional memory counters.

 

[Populus]

I made a clean install of macOS Big Sur on one of the oldest machines Apple allows the install, and haven’t experienced this.

Is there any way to trigger this memory leak? Perhaps using Facetime on my Mac to answer an iPhone call?

Thanks to everyone who made possible that MacRumors posted this on the frontpage, hopefully Apple will see it and solve it.

 

[Populus]

I’ve performed several FaceTime calls using my iPhone, on macOS 11.6.1, and I’m not having that issue. The RAM usage remains very low.

I’m using an Intel 2014 Mac mini.

 

[denaria]

I'm also seeing it repeatedly in the days after upgrading to 11.6.1.

16GB RAM, 1TB SSD with 222GB free, MBP Pro 15-inch.

I don't use Facetime and I see none of its processes in Activity Monitor.

I have not changed my usage pattern or installed new apps, and Activity Monitor is not showing memory hogs or large numbers of browser processes.

I will experiment with eliminating apps I like to keep running, try a different browser, etc. And maybe hope that 11.6.2 will bring relief.

 

[dr.wong]

 

[denaria]

How would one go about reverting from 11.6.1 to 11.6.0?

 

[Populus]

How would one go about reverting from 11.6.1 to 11.6.0?

Get the installer, make a USB bootable installer, boot from there, erase the drive, and install 11.6
Right now I’m not sure where could you find the installer tho...