![]() ![]() At least until the next system update at which time let’s hope they’ve fixed the bug. Now my fingers are crossed that this is really the cure. The explanation is here if you care to read it. The setting is set by a reference to each particular model of Mac and by removing the reference it defaults to it ends up not doing anything, which in this case is better than what it was doing. Apparently, there’s a bug in the process that tries to control cooling of the CPU. This fix was not for the faint of heart because it involved editing a kernel extension in the root-level System folder, specifically IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext, removing a reference to my exact model of MacBook Pro. Back to square one.Īfter a lot more digging, I think I’ve hit on the true solution in a post in the Apple Discussions Forum. Within days of disabling smcFanControl, I was right back where I was before: Every time the computer needed to recharge, the kernel_task process would eat up all the CPU cycles and the MacBook would slow to a dead crawl. Update, March 18, 2014: It turns out smcFanControl was not the source of the problem.
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