I might have just discovered something regarding high cpu. Though I'm on monterey running a monterey vm (unsupposed by vmware fusion atm). I was getting high cpu for SYSTEM cpu as opposed to user cpu. It was running at about 25% and would turn the fans on constantly even with the vm idle. Well, shutting off the energy saving stuff (uncheck prevent your mac from automatically sleeping, wake for network access and enable power nap) in the VM seems to have solved this issue. The fans are quiet and the vmware-vmx process that was constantly at 70-100% (via top) is now down to <20. Can anyone else verify this?
