パソコンの不調なんてのは突然やってくるもの。自分が編集部で文章入力やファイル管理に使っているMacBook Airの調子が、突然悪くなったのです。何をするにも重いのです。非常に動作が遅くなり、ファンが全力でブンブン唸りをあげ、ブラウザーを ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

hsp comes from host_special_port(4) patch implemented by @s1guza in his hsp4 kext. Checks macOS for Kernel Task Port. It may help detect intrusive kexts that would leak the kernel task. Pretty much ...