I found something called TMCacheDelete in activity monitor. What is it?

I recently upgraded to Yosemite and have found something called TMCacheDelete in activity monitor. What is it and should I be concerned?

This is purely an educated guess ...
I suspect that is clearing out your Time Machine cache. Time Machine is your backup program that runs without your thinking about it, and backs up things that have changed since the last backup was done.
Should you be concerned? No. But by all means you should make sure you are in fact running Time Machine and keeping good backups.

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i have a laptop that i use completely for live music performance and i want to disable everything on the mac that could be taking up RAM and CPU power.
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hi.
thanks for coming back with an answer so quickly.
in activity monitor i can see spotlight is taking up about 25mb.
i have a 6GB music session to run with a huge CPU load so every bit of my 4GB RAM is taken up.
i do use spotlight a lot but could do without if it meant freeing up a little bit of space... it all helps!
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I also have the same problem. I follow the instructions above, however the problem persists.
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[0x0-0x3d03d].com.apple.ActivityMonitor[358]: dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: __commpagedsmos
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Path: /Applications/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor
Identifier: com.apple.ActivityMonitor
Version: 1.5.3 (58)
Build Info: ActivityMonitor-580000~1
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [132]
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: __commpagedsmos
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Hello,
Thank you very much for your comment.
Well, I think those apps and utilities are probably not designed well then. It goes against UI expectations if you aren't allowed to make a subfolder in Applications or Utilities folders.
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Thanks anyway, I lost this round I suppose!
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