**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Fri Apr 22 02:59:56 2022 Apr 22 17:22:00 according to ggoogle: Apr 22 17:22:01 Sugov is a kernel thread used in ARM architecture as part of the scheduling governor. Apr 22 17:22:10 the sugov kthread is a special RT task, which goal is just that to activate a frequency transition Apr 22 17:22:17 As far as I can tell from the referenced documents the 13% CPU usage is a fake measurement and you needn't be worried about it. Apr 22 17:22:27 It has a strange name so that grep can now easily find all its references in the kernel source without being overwhelmed by false matches. Apr 22 17:22:36 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/530644/whats-the-process-sugov0 Apr 22 17:22:59 SchedUling GOVernor Apr 22 18:07:40 darn, i've replied to fmg on the wrong channel **** ENDING LOGGING AT Sat Apr 23 02:59:56 2022