A “kernel,” is the core of any OS, which sits between the CPU, memory, other hardware & the software applications installed on the system. When the MAC is turned on, the first thing that starts is the ...

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 ...

There have been many reports, especially with MacBook Air and other laptop owners, where the Mac OS X "kernel_task" process takes up a large amount of CPU when checked in Activity Monitor. When this ...

i have been trying out your experimental EFI for Monterey, updated everything to the latest available version, updated the BIOS of my machine to 1.16.0 (released earlier this month). Unfortunately, it ...

In OS X you may find the process "kernel_task" taking up a large amount of RAM. Here is why this is happening and what you can do about it. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

hsp comes from host_special_port(4) patch implemented by @s1guza in his hsp4 kext. Checks macOS for Kernel Task Port. It may help detect intrusive kexts that would leak the kernel task. Pretty much ...