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 ...

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 ...

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 ...