CPU is burning - Advanced users

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CPU is burning - Advanced users

Hello guys,

My MacBook is: MacBook Pro 13" - Early 2011 - running OS X 10.8.4

I'm having a difficult problem with it, which make me hate it, any way it start when I was scanning it & I found that I have 63 GB as a hidden space with (DaisyDisk) , I couldn't delete it or even got an access to it. The laptop start after a while to get very hot & slow, after that I installed (iStat Menus) to see whts going on, I found out sometimes & out of no where the (kernal_task) go crazy to reach 150% and above -I saw it once @ 220%- I really don't know what to do or how to fix it,.

Please help with someting works, not like what I found when I searched google nothing but old things ..

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 22, 2013 8:47 AM

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mende1

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Jul 22, 2013 8:50 AM in response to arj-89

In Lion and Mountain Lion, MacBooks may get unusual CPU loads because of kernel_task. The steps to fix it aren't easy, and you only have to do them at your own risk > http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=259 Make a backup of your files before.

Respecting to hidden space, open  > About this Mac > More Info > Storage. If you see that Backups is taking a lot of space, that's what you are seeing as hidden space. See > http://pondini.org/TM/30.html

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