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I was running a Python code which may have increased the need for memory. Anyhow, the following happened, and I feel it should not.

  • I have 16 GB memory and it shows only 3 GB allocated to Python
  • Remainder of memory apparently not allocated to anything
  • Should a single application be able to suck that much memory s.t. the rest of OSX becomes vulnerable / non stable?

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    That is only showing the memory used by your user you need to look at all memory i.e. Activity Monitor->View->All Processes
    – mmmmmm
    Mar 2, 2015 at 22:02
  • You're also running a lot of things that take up plenty of RAM and they add up. I have no idea how Dock could be taking up 41.3 megabytes. Also, you don't seem to have any swap available?
    – 0942v8653
    Mar 3, 2015 at 1:16

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Have a look in the Console log. You will likely see that it's a Python-internal issue. Most likely a recursion or some exhaustive memory allocation. Python and other languages use a limited stack/heap to store runtime data (like the call stack). If that is exhausted they simply croak and do not ask the OSX to provide more memory.

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