Ram issues on MacBook Pro New User

[john_mcclenahan]

I had this problem earlier.

The uninstall from 3d connexion doesn’t remove everything.

Check there’s nothing left in:
~/Library/Application Support/Sketchup 2017/Sketchup/Plugins/
and also the system /Library as well as the user library - note, no tilde at beginning.
/Library/Application Support/Sketchup 2017/Sketchup/Plugins/

Do a global search for ‘connexion’ or it might be ‘3dconnexion’ too

See this thread:

Memory consumption constantly increasing, then system freezes

I use SU 2016 Pro and have been having increasingly frequent ‘out of application memory’ freezes on iMac retina 5K. It’s not just SU that freezes - most open applications stop responding to anything other than ‘force quit’. I have just opened a new SU document, and as I watch, the memory usage in Activity Monitor climbs by the GB over a few minutes - starting at 3.6GB, and now (doing nothing) 20GB and still rising. Less than a minute later, it had reached 33GB, and is now still rising at 53GB. …