aldarion Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Hi there everyone. I've got a problem I can not find solution to. I have a working natively-installed OS X (JaS 10.4.8 DVD). Everything worked just fine (even QE and CI), untill something went wrong. When I log in, the GUI loads and then my HDD led stays on for about 10-15 minutes, CPU load is 100% (used by kernel_task) and system is unusable. I've read all forum topics related to kernel_task CPU load problems and didn't find any solution to my problem. After a period of time HDD led goes out, system gains normal state. Any ideas? System specs: Intel Pentium 4: 2Ghz -> 2.66 Ghz overclocked; 1024MiB RAM, running dual channel; SiS 648 chipset; nVidia GeForce 7600GS 256MiB, AGP; *hmm.. also, can't get my SB Live! Value to work, but this is impossible, i think. Ah, and yes, all HDD operations (program loading, file operations etc.) load my CPU heavily, what can I do about it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43579-kernel_task-hdd-cpu-load/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldarion Posted March 2, 2007 Author Share Posted March 2, 2007 so, this is unfixable or my questions are just noobish? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43579-kernel_task-hdd-cpu-load/#findComment-314894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 I'm just guessing here, but maybe you could try lowering your CPU clock. heckker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43579-kernel_task-hdd-cpu-load/#findComment-314958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldarion Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 hecker, nope, the problem is not about overclocking. I've overclocked (BIOS-method) after the problem emerged. I try to figure out, when all this {censored} began, and it seems that either after MS Office 2004 installation or after Torrent client. Not sure. It might have been some other software. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43579-kernel_task-hdd-cpu-load/#findComment-316963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shaun Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Sounds like it's indexing your hard disk for spotlight. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43579-kernel_task-hdd-cpu-load/#findComment-317558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldarion Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 If so, Shaun, is there any way to fix it? I've already disabled spotlight indexing on my ntfs HDD, but it doesn't solve the problem. Only my mac HDD (i've got two separage HDDs) is... caching something after boot. 160 GiB Seagate. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43579-kernel_task-hdd-cpu-load/#findComment-318322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
preskush Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 bump i'm having the same issues Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43579-kernel_task-hdd-cpu-load/#findComment-349684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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