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UKwarrior

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 8, 2023
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Hi everyone, I am using a M1 Pro 14 inch macbook pro, and have noticed that in activity monitor Kernel_task is using up a massive amount of RAM- I only have 16GB so I am not even sure how this is possible.

Does anyone have any idea why it is using so much, and what I need to do to fix this?

The strange thing is my macbook doesn't seem slow, and shows memory pressure as green and using 13GB of RAM, however the same window in activity monitor shows Kernel_task at the top using that much memory.
 
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