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Your Mac OS X Startup disk has no more space available for application memory
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1418847" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>Closing the windows (the red button) won't help to release much memory. By using the red close button, you are in essence telling the operating system to close the windows but keep the application open in active memory.</p><p></p><p>The issue with memory is that it could be something hiding in the background gobbling up your memory or it could be something in the "foreground" like a web browser. Looking at that list, I notice you have Firefox open - it is notorious for leaking (eating up) memory and it's so bad that people have developed extensions to manage this (see <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/memory-fox/" target="_blank">here</a> for example).</p><p></p><p>This problem will only get worse over time as the application slowly eats away at whatever memory it can get its metaphorical hands on (Safari is another example of an application that leaks memory left, right and centre). If you haven't, quit those applications are reopen them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1418847, member: 71075"] Closing the windows (the red button) won't help to release much memory. By using the red close button, you are in essence telling the operating system to close the windows but keep the application open in active memory. The issue with memory is that it could be something hiding in the background gobbling up your memory or it could be something in the "foreground" like a web browser. Looking at that list, I notice you have Firefox open - it is notorious for leaking (eating up) memory and it's so bad that people have developed extensions to manage this (see [URL="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/memory-fox/"]here[/URL] for example). This problem will only get worse over time as the application slowly eats away at whatever memory it can get its metaphorical hands on (Safari is another example of an application that leaks memory left, right and centre). If you haven't, quit those applications are reopen them. [/QUOTE]
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