Well the Mac isn’t immunie to strange problems. At various times I’ve noticed syslogd (the logging daemon), the spindump and kernel_task all spinning at 100% cpu utilization. Not really clear what is causing it. In one case a flaky USB hub causes kernel_task problems which makes some sense.
kernel_task uses 70%+ often – Mac Forums
kernel_task [...]
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Well, maybe I’m hard on hardware, but have four problems with my MacBook Air right now in order of problems:
Intermittent Freezing (aka Core Shutdown)
Originally I thought that this was because my hard disk has corruption problems. ClamAV would run and then system would lock, so then I disabled this, but still had it. Then had [...]
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