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schnb

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Original poster
May 18, 2008
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As the title says..


Basically I'm having this problem with kernel_task - something in there, and I have no clue what, is eating up all my RAM. Takes up 465mb on startup! No CPU though.. well no more than usual I presume, about 0.20%.

On a recently new 2011" Macbook Pro 2.2GHz 15".. 10.6.7.

There have been a few troubles with it otherwise.. including very high temperatures - could this be to do with it? I heard that high temperature causes more kernal usage, or did I hear it wrong..


I'm sure a clean install MIGHT solve the issue but my backup drive failed so having to wait a few weeks til I can backup again!
 
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