[foobar33333]

MacOS has a weird solution to throttling. They put a fake process in the process list which looks like it consuming x% of the resources but really it is just blocking some usage to allow the CPU to cool.

[bhj]

kernel_task is "real", but yeah, part of its responsibility is issuing NOOPs for thermal control: https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/main/osfmk/kern/thr...

[_ph_]

I wished they would have a separate, properly named process for it. My old MB Pro (late 2015) was throtteling a lot and it took me very long to recognize, as it was just "kernel task" gobbling up cpu. Getting the machine cleaned out at a service center did help a lot, I wonder, whether redoing the thermal paste on the cpu would have improved it further, but I ended up replacing it with a current model.

[leucineleprec0n]

I love this tbh. It's a great indicator and allows me to easily use existing tracking/functions in Activity Monitor to assay thermal headroom at particular points etc

[barrkel]

It's the right solution IMO. It doesn't artificially inflate the % of running processes but total % stays high, indicating no reserve capacity.

[pabs3]

Linux has the same solution on my machine.