Sorry, I re-read original and see my confusion. You said that you see system idle process using most of the CPU at the same time performance tab CPU graph shows high CPU usage, and a reboot fixes it. What's unknown is how long the correct behavior continues after a reboot, and what, if anything, triggers the incorrect behavior.
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