Your System Has Run Out Of Application Memory

Report · Mar 25, 2023

Hi everytone. I JUST downloaded the latest versions of Photoshop and Lightroom Classic and having a problem. I imported one photo, started editing, and within minutes I got the "Your System Has Run Out Of Application Memory" error. I was suprised to see this since I have a new M1 Mac w/ 64GB of memory and use it for music production and run large sessions in Pro Tools & Ableton simutaniously w/ no problem. Also I really didn't do any real editing on the photo, just a couple of "healing" moves to remove some glare. Can someone tell me why this is happening and how I fix it? I will Google too, but just wanted to throw the post out too. (included photos are of the error message, the info on the file I was messing around with, and my "about this mac" mac info

Report · Apr 15, 2023

Wanted to add my experience to this thread in the hopes that it would help Adobe sort out what's going on. I will also try checking the permissions.

I am running a MacBook Pro (2022) with M1 Max and 64GB. Ventura 13.2.1 and Adobe apps all updated.

I recently added about 1,200+ images to the catalog. Ever since then it has been hanging on the beachball. I force quit, try to do something, and it comes back again. Restart. Clear preferences. Even ran Onyx to run utilities. Nothing made a difference. Until I stopped syncing. Then it was fine, and I was able to make changes again.

Today I downloaded a dozen photos to the catalog and, with the sync on, it did it again only this time I got the error message so I actually found out what was happenening. With the same configuration as the OP, LrC ballooned to more than 112GB of memory usage. It was the only app running and I recently restarted.

Report · Apr 16, 2023

I believe you're experiencing the issue identified in the thread that I've linked below. Unfortunately, there is no workaround at this time. Hopefully, the issue will be resolved soon.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-mac-memory-leak-when-syncing-files-with-the-...

Report · Jan 02, 2024

The problem described in this thread has not been fully solved yet, I have the very same problem here on my MacBook Pro:
CPU: M3 Max
RAM: 64GB
OS: Sonoma 14.2.1
SW: Lightroom 7.1.2

Available free RAM: 52GB

Before opening Lightroom, I have more then 50GB of RAM available. A couple of minutes after opening Lightroom I get the error message "Your system has run out of application memory" and I have to force quit it.

Lightroom Classic works great, all the other apps from Adobe work great, (including the most demanding ones like After Effects and PremierePro), only Lightroom has this issue.

All the general advices about memory management doesn't fix the problem, there's a critical bug with Lightroom consuming more then 50GB without doing anything. I have a very small library in Lightroom, since I work mainly with LR Classic...

It would be nice to see at least a workaround to have the app open more then a couple of minutes.

Report · Jan 02, 2024

What would be interesting is how much memory is consumed by the GPU vs. the Lightroom application. They both use shared system memory.

I don't do Mac, but I've noticed that GPU memory tends to increase over time according to whatever's available. Not a problem with a discrete GPU with its own VRAM, but with an integrated GPU there could be competition.

Report · Jan 02, 2024

The problem described in this thread has not been fully solved yet, I have the very same problem here on my MacBook Pro:
CPU: M3 Max
RAM: 64GB
OS: Sonoma 14.2.1
SW: Lightroom 7.1.2
Available free RAM: 52GB

By @GAntico

Ok, but this discussion is for Lightroom Classic, not Lightroom Ecosystem (Cloud Based) and as those are two different applications, cause/remedy can be different.

You may want to post your's over at:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based/ct-p/ct-lightroom?page=1&sort=latest_...

Oh, I see you have posted over in that community. Ok

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-discussions/lightroom-crashing-every-...

Report · Aug 07, 2024

I had the same issue and tried everything. I Finally solved the problem by using adobe cc cleaner and here is the installation link:

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

Report · Nov 01, 2024

I tried the adobe cc cleaner, removed everything and reinstalled from scratch only Creative Cloud with Lightroom and it didn't work. After lauch, Lightroom gets not responding and it consumes 441GB of memory.

Report · Aug 08, 2024

Just chiming in. I had the same problem and it drove me insane for many hours, I was about to throw the computer against the wall. In the end, after deleteing some unimportant documents, freeing up some space, and restarting - I can't tell this was part of the issue, but in addition I updated my OS to latest version, deleted all the Adobe CC programs from my computer and installed Photoshop again. Hope this helps others.

Report · Oct 17, 2024

Also on my modern computer from a year ago from 2023 in the newest Lightroom 14.0.1 the RAM climbs up all the time, when Lightroom is on, even without photo editing, until the computer crashes.