Whoa! Mr. diesel12 — while I appreciate the goodwill embodied in your suggestion — Dilating the memory as the first resort when two plugins have a conflict is neither practical nor prudent. Particularly when the benefit derived is so insignificant (The Yoast feed on the dashboard is inessential).
My site's users don't need WordPress SEO; they do need BuddyPress. I'll just leave WordPress SEO deactivated until this problem is resolved.
There is something broken here and it needs to be fixed: That is why I have posted a bug report here.