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		fiddlerwoaroof on Oct 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If your MacBook Pro shows high % CPU, try charging... I think that’s sort of what the kernel_task usage is now: it’s minimally documented, but I guess the scheduler is now designed to attempt to throttle the system it it’s overheating.

bombcar on Oct 3, 2021 [–]

To monitor throttling, you may run:

    pmset -g thermlog

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