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How to diagnose ballooning OS X kernel_task and wired memory usage?
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I have a very strange issue, which I'm having a hard time diagnosing as to the root cause. I have a Mac Pro (2008, 8-core 2.8 GHz, 8800GT) with 14 GB of RAM (recently upgraded because of this issue!). When I boot my system and log in, vm_stat / top / Activity Monitor will show that kernel_task has …
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To investigate why the kernel uses more memory than usual, you can use different tools. Run Activity Monitor to check which processes using the most of memory, so it's either a , not any other task using more memory than usual (then consider killing…
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