Wrote a quick tool that shows CPU usage history, per process.

Already it’s showing something strange: Time Machine backups seem to cause significant spikes for SystemUIServer, even though that process is only supposed to manage menu bar extras. Might be because I’ve hidden the TM icon using Ice?

A Mac app showing a graph with two curves. backupd shows hourly spikes, and SystemUIServer has very closely matching usage.
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