I see lots of those on my production server, they come and go and take up lots of CPU time
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 17 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 1661 0.0 4728:03 migration/3 29 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 1508 0.0 4728:03 migration/6 0 2 Answers
The migration kernel process distributes workload across CPU cores. You should have one migration process per processor core.
"migration" is a kernel process
Check here
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