Ok i had to reinstall my osx due to me messing it up

But now after ive reinstalled (Same iso, same method which is vmware) My install is extremly slow, And there is a ''Kernal_task'' Hogging 80+ Of my cpu.

I read on the forum about deleting an ''appletpm'' Or something like that File but i cant find it anywhere in my install.

So if you guys have any idea's id be greatful

Amd athlon 64 3400
asus k8n Mobo
Nvidia geforce 6200
1 gb ram


(The boot time is very slow compared to before also)

Are you sure that you chose the right patches during installation?
Is there any reason not to install OS X directly?

Yeh i choose all the right patches same as before, I cant install any other way (to my knowledge) Because osx cant see my hard drive

Nevermind guys, Booted with the goatsecx dvd an it fixed my problem (Must be vmware)

Thanks anyways

Another tip: turn off windows file sharing when you don't need it; it is a CPU hog as well.

I have the same problem. Kernal_task took about 70% CPU usage and i thought its because of my AMD processor.

I have 2 dual AMD opteron 270 processor and in one of my processor kernal_task took about 70%-80%. I was not really happy seeing this happening. I had the windows sharing turn on.

So, other than windows sharing is there any other problem that would trigger kernal_cpu to hog the cpu that much.

Thanks