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So - my old laptop's hard drive packed in, so I bought an absolutely ridiculous macbook pro.
Now, despite having a butt-tonne of RAM, something is constantly eating 2GB all the time, from start up to shut down. It's not any of the active apps, but something running in the background. It's listed as Kernel_task, which is a root task, so it can't be stopped. Sometimes OSX starts a huge kernel_task for thermal throttling, but my laptop isn't hot enough for that to kick in...
I've got iStat menus installed, and I get the feel that it's that which is using all this RAM, as I've removed all the login items, including everything in LaunchAgent and LaunchDemon Library folders. I tried to boot up in Safe mode, but iStat still launched up and was registering 14.5GB of RAM use from something or other.
Anyone got any smart ideas about how to fucking disable iStat Menus, or how to work out exactly what or why I'm using all this fucking RAM all the time?