What is systemstats on Mac?
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Gathers statistics about system power use for macOS's energy tracking.
systemstats collects and summarises statistics about power usage, which macOS uses for things like energy and battery reporting. It runs periodically in the background and can briefly use noticeable CPU while it processes data, then settles.
- Category
- macOS system
- Made by
- Apple
- Safe to quit:
- With care
Shown in Activity Monitor as systemstats
Why is systemstats using so much CPU or memory?
- Periodic processing of power statistics, often after waking or being idle
- After a macOS update
What to do
- 1Wait a few minutes; short spikes are normal
- 2Restart your Mac if it stays busy for a long time
Safe to quit? With care.
It runs again later; quitting just interrupts the current pass.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library