OS X El Capitan: kernel_task virtual memory

[muhammed.abad]

Just noticed that the kernel_task process is using about 71GB of virtual memory. Not sure if this is normal or not, but I can't seem to find any reason as to why this value is so high.

I did install trend micro recently but completely removed it to see if anything would change after a reboot, but it hasn't.

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[Viva]

I suspect this is normal. Mine sits at 70.8GB.

 

[vinodh]

Mine is 71.65GB.

 

[muhammed.abad]

Thanks for the updates. Seems to be pretty "normal" then. I'm not noticing any performance issues so I guess it's fine.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

I am more a command line person - try those:

sudo zprint -t -s | head -n20

sudo fs_usage

If you think that disk-writes are lingering, you can always do a "sync && sudo purge"

 

[bwana]

MBP running Yosemite



MBA running El'Cap



I wonder why there's such a difference?