Even the new-ish 16-inch MacBook Pro runs hot. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Does your brand new MacBook Pro go into meltdown when it’s plugged into power? Do the fans spin up into a blast of ...

MacFixIt reader "Martin V." writes in to alert us about an ongoing issue with his MacBook Air. The process 'kernel_task' uses an inordinate amount of system resources causing his system to run ...

"The CPU number in Task Manager is a moving little obituary for the immediate past," explained former Microsoft engineer Dave ...

I've noticed that as I leave the system on longer, kernel_task uses more and more memory, CPU Usage doesn't really go up but right now its consuming about 86 megs of real memory on a 1gig of ram ...

I've recently noticed that kernel_task is constantly using 11% of CPU on my 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro with OS X 10.6.6. Try disconnecting from your network. You may have some device that is actually ...

Microsoft is testing a new diagnostic tool in Windows 11 that lets you create live kernel memory dumps without disrupting the operation of Windows. A live kernel dump is a snapshot of the kernel's ...

If you own a MacBook Pro (if you don’t, you can always get one with a discount thanks to the Black Friday MacBook deals) and have noticed it gets hot while charging, there could be a simple solution.

The live kernel dump feature within Task Manager is now available for use with the latest Windows 11 Dev channel build 25197. The option was first added in one of the earlier builds. Earlier today, ...

On Jan. 19, Linus Torvalds officially released the Linux 6.13 kernel. I can't call the 6.13 kernel a major release, but it's still a step forward in performance, security, and hardware support. That's ...

Windows 11 is far from perfect, but it does make Task Manager significantly better. It's modern, has a search bar, and easy-to-understand graphs. But what are some of the lesser-known features of the ...