A “kernel,” is the core of any OS, which sits between the CPU, memory, other hardware & the software applications installed on the system. When the MAC is turned on, the first thing that starts is the ...

Thanks to Howard Oakley for explaining something that has bothered me for years. When my iMac is struggling under a heavy CPU load, performance suffers, and I can hear its fans ramping up. Checking in ...

There have been many reports, especially with MacBook Air and other laptop owners, where the Mac OS X "kernel_task" process takes up a large amount of CPU when checked in Activity Monitor. When this ...

After testing the latest EFI (0.8.4), I can confirm that the kernel_task process is stagnating at 60% CPU usage constantly. This causes battery to drain fast and fans to kick it at full speed quite ...

In OS X you may find the process "kernel_task" taking up a large amount of RAM. Here is why this is happening and what you can do about it. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

After jailbreak checkra1n or odysseyra1n, the amount of memory used by kernel_task is constantly increasing. At first, ldrestart helped to reset its value to 300 MB, but after a couple of days it does ...