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 ...

MacFixIt reader "Martin V." writes in to alert us about an ongoing issue with his MacBook Air. The process 'kernel_task' uses an inordinate amount of system resources causing his system to run ...

I'm running OSX 10.2.2 on a Graphite iMac DV (400MHz, 512MB) and something very odd has started to happen in the last couple of days.<BR><BR>I have an external CD-RW drive which connects via Firewire ...

I've noticed that as I leave the system on longer, kernel_task uses more and more memory, CPU Usage doesn't really go up but right now its consuming about 86 megs of real memory on a 1gig of ram ...