Friday, February 20, 2015

Windows 8 on MacBook Pro: 1 core @ 100 %

I've noticed that one of the cores in my MacBook Pro was constantly at around 90 - 100 %. The list of processes showed that it was the system process.




Inspecting the processes with ProcessMonitor showed that is was ACPI,sys - as mentioned here, however - I couldn't find any drivers that could be updated in order to fix anything.

Turns out it's a more common problem on macs:



Someone on this forum thread suggests to make the computer go to sleep and wake it up again:




which worked like a charm for me:


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