Kernel_task using a lot of ram?

[fenjen]

Hi guys,

I have three MacBooks in my household, all running OSX 10.9 but what struck my is that when I looked at the memory usage of all of them is that the kernel_task process is only taking around 450 mb on the two MacBooks that aren't mine, while mine is taking up 850-900.

So my questions are, what could cause this huge difference in memory usage and what could I do to reduce the memory usage?

Thanks in advance!

 

[leman]

Why do you want to 'lessen memory usage'? Are you experiencing performance problems?

 

[fenjen]

Why do you want to 'lessen memory usage'? Are you experiencing performance problems?

Not yet. But if there's something I can do about it then why not? It just struck me as odd that the process on my Mb was about twice as large as on the other two Mb's.

 

[leman]

My kernel_task takes 1.2GB. Never had a problem with it though...

 

[LightningIceFox]

This Forum has some good information in regards to what it actually is.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1478183/

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/16179892/