Hi guys,
I recently moved to a Macbook running Leopard (10.5.4) and had this very weird behavior a couple of times, without being able to reproduce it.
It happened that after using Itunes for some time, say 1 hour, the kernel_task was going mad, picking from -880 to 3,2400 (yes, I'm serious), with all other processes behaving as normal. I shut down every running program, but this didn't affect anything. At the end, I discovered that unplugging the headphones would bring everything to normal, and plugging it again would trigger the bizarre behaviour of kernel_task. I've checked Console messages, but nothing relevant there. The weirdest fact is that after a while, say 30 min., everything was ok again. I'm now trying to run Itunes again, and see what happens. I kinda suspect is something hardware, more than software.
Any idea about it?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Sandro
I recently moved to a Macbook running Leopard (10.5.4) and had this very weird behavior a couple of times, without being able to reproduce it.
It happened that after using Itunes for some time, say 1 hour, the kernel_task was going mad, picking from -880 to 3,2400 (yes, I'm serious), with all other processes behaving as normal. I shut down every running program, but this didn't affect anything. At the end, I discovered that unplugging the headphones would bring everything to normal, and plugging it again would trigger the bizarre behaviour of kernel_task. I've checked Console messages, but nothing relevant there. The weirdest fact is that after a while, say 30 min., everything was ok again. I'm now trying to run Itunes again, and see what happens. I kinda suspect is something hardware, more than software.
Any idea about it?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Sandro