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There are many things that go wrong with high kernel task usage.
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My question is, how do I check on high memory usage of kernel task or how to properly deal with that kind of situation? I’ve tried to take Sample with Activity Monitor, but it’s greyed out.Ģ.3GHz Intel Core i7 (late 2013) with 16GB RAM. Networks: packets: 299419263/363G in, 142126838/14G out.ĭisks: 58970173/1079G read, 20012389/1120G written.Īt the end my OS X frozen and I had to do hard reset, repair my SDD in recovery mode and fixing afterwards (recovering lost work, fixing application conflicts, checking my lost+found folder, Chrome/Terminal tabs gone, headache, etc.).
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MemRegions: 757970 total, 2139M resident, 56M private, 907M shared. My top stats before my kernel freeze: Processes: 344 total, 2 running, 5 stuck, 337 sleeping, 2580 threads 19:23:56 However I’ve still 20GB of space free on my SDD.Īctivity Monitor didn’t help much whilst my OS X was heading to the destruction. I’ve obviously closed few which I could, but it didn’t help.Īfter checking on memory, it seems kernel task ate 7GB and 22.36GB swap memory was used of total 23GB (which obviously was the case). To avoid problems with your computer, quit any applications you are not using. Your system has run out of application memory. I was using my MacBook Pro (with 16GB of RAM) as usual and out of blue I’ve this popup that: