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Advertisement macOS acting slow? Got the dreaded spinning pinwheel of death? A limited combination of hardware and software generally keeps Mac problems to a minimum. There’s one issue that never seems to go away. You’re not alone if you’re noticing an errant process called kernel_task eating much of your available CPU. So what is this process, and how can you free up precious resources? Read on to find out. Diagnosing a Slow Mac If your Mac appears to be running slowly, is generating a lot of heat, or sounds like it’s about to take off due to high fan speeds then you’ll want to open Activity Monitor and find out why.

This is essentially Apple’s equivalent to the Windows Task Manager — a If you want to be a fairly proficient Mac user, it is necessary to know what Activity Monitor is, and how to read and use it. As usual, that's where we come in. You can open Activity Monitor using Spotlight: just hit Cmd + Space then start typing “activity” and it should pop up. You can also find it under Applications > Utilities, and you might want to It's the primary way many users interact with Mac OS X, but a lot of people still don't know some of the most basic and useful things the dock is capable of.for even quicker access when things start to go wrong. The reason for your slow computer should be evident on the CPU tab. Just click the%CPU column header to organise running processes by share of their processor usage. Floor plan app for mac and iphone sync. Anything using a high amount of processing power will appear at the top, and things will move around as your computer performs various tasks in the background.

Cpu Usage Monitor

High CPU usage is generally only a problem when you’re not expecting it. It’s reasonable to expect your machine to chew up resources if you’re running a game, watching a video in your browser, or editing a video. If a single Safari tab or Mac process is using more than its fair share, that generally means something’s gone wrong. You can kill any such processes by clicking on them, then clicking on the “X” in the top left corner of the screen. Unfortunately you can’t do this for one particular process: kernel_task.

Cpu Usage Microsoft

Show CPU Usage – this is a live gauge of processor activity on the Mac, each CPU core is shown as a separate bar, this is probably the most useful of the five choices (shown up top) Show CPU History – this shows processor load and use graphed over time, each CPU core is shown separately.