"deleted" process in macOS Activity Monitor

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I have a process showing up that is consuming 25% of my CPU… it has a name of “deleted”
if I force quit this process, it returns a few seconds later

Sampling process 23346 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling deleted (pid 23346) every 1 millisecond
Process:         deleted [23346]
Path:            /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CacheDelete.framework/deleted
Load Address:    0x10de54000
Identifier:      deleted
Version:         383.100.7
Code Type:       X86-64
Parent Process:  ??? [1]
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turns out it is a system function to manage various caches in the OS… seems it is a known issue that at times in Catalina (at least), sometimes it uses a bit more CPU than it should.

Deleting these will cause the system to NOT be bootable, so beware

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ah probably “delete daemon” shortened to deleted

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Additional info, if not known:
502 673 1 0 15Dez20 ?? 90:17.14 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CacheDelete.framework/deleted
0 681 1 0 15Dez20 ?? 0:22.04 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CacheDelete.framework/deleted_helper