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Take the risk of bricking my one and only dev machine by disabling the kernel_task process altogether, no thanks It has PID 0 and is part of the kernel. AFAIK
by danieldk 6y ago
Take the risk of bricking my one and only dev machine by disabling the kernel_task process altogether, no thanks
It has PID 0 and is part of the kernel. AFAIK you can't disable it (unless you build your own kernel).
- saagarjha 6y agoYou can't disable it at all; it is the kernel.
- danieldk 6y ago‘It’ refers to this specific functionality. If you recompile the XNU kernel you could disable the part that ‘reserves’ the CPU to cool the system. I am not sure whether is is still possible to replace the kernel, but IIRC some Hackintosh people replace it by custom builds (assuming that Apple released the relevant version already). Of course you probably do not want to do that, this is done for a reason.
- OzzyB 6y agoUnderstood, what I was refering to is this [0] which seems to disable the kernel_task profiler, not the kernel itself. Again, I haven't done this, too scared ;D [0] https://blog.viktorpetersson.com/2016/01/03/how-to-fix-kerneltask-cpu-usage-on-el-capitan.html https://blog.viktorpetersson.com/2016/01/03/how-to-fix-kerne...