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A community to talk about macOS, the operating system powering Apple's Macintosh computers.
iTerm2 high power usage - 12 Hour Power over 120 while idle
From this same thread, I found the Prefs > Advanced > GPU renderer redraws at least this often setting, which defaulted to 0.5sec; and changing it to 5sec (and then 3600sec to effectively disable it) seemed to drop my CPU usage from ~8-9% down to 1-2%; and I think also caused WindowServer to have way less CPU usage as well.
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/8640#note_3015813030