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 ...
I've been using two external monitors on this MBP (plus the built-in display) for 6 months now, and this problem just cropped up this week, despite no recent OS updates* (obviously, since I'm still ...
I've recently noticed that kernel_task is constantly using 11% of CPU on my 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro with OS X 10.6.6. Try disconnecting from your network. You may have some device that is actually ...
The past few days we've been covering reports of kernel panics on PowerBooks and iBooks when switching Network Locations. Yesterday we summarized the main factors that appeared to be involved in this ...
I'm not usually a fan of different software having their own solutions for just about every problem under the sun, but I tend to give Valve a pass because, well, just about every PC gamer uses Steam.