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My iMac is almost unusable as a result of Kernel_tasks. Activity monitor shows 1600% cpu usage, whilst the graph shows the system is taking up 70%. How can if fix this? I have reinstalled a new system and reinstalled all my data. I am running a Catalina on a 27inch iMac with 4.2GHz Quad core intel core i& with 64GB of DDR4. Help!!

iMac 27" 5K, macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 5, 2020 11:48 PM

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Posted on Feb 6, 2020 1:04 AM

Please run Etrecheck and post its report here.

Problems like this are nearly always due to third party software conflicts.

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