How to find the process that is causing CPU usage when sleep on Mac M4 running macOS 15.5?
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I had my Mac M4 on sleep, as usual (macOS 15.5).
Today when I opened it, it was warm. I took a look on the cpu usage I saw that it was walking up in around 1h intervals with a 15% user usage. When I opened it the cpu usage dropped and the machine cooled down.
I would like to find what's the processes causing this usage as it don't seem right.
Is it possible to find the logs of CPU usage % on a given time in the past?
Or how to record CPU % usage per process (like as Activity monitor reports) in the future ?
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**Update**: I made a
launchd
script to dump 3 activity logs every 10minutes in a textfile. The process using resources is usually mediaanalysisd
2025-07-10 05:29:25
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ POWER
613 mediaanalysisd 79.6 04:01:30 7/1 4/1 79.6
496 mds_stores 37.0 01:49:10 21/2 19/2 37.0
3150 mediaanalysisd-a 6.9 24:47.90 15 14 6.9


Asked by Diolor
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Jul 9, 2025, 09:42 AM
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