Is it normal that Time Machine is backupping all the time ...

I don't think I have worked/changed a lot in the rencent hours (worked on one InDesign file, surfed a bit, played one arcade game (for half an hour). Still Time Machine is constantly backing up files.
(e.g. 8,4 MB of 55.798 objects, before that some other high number with appr. 32 MB, etc etc
Is this normal?
(I have only finished the first backup yesterday), so maybe it's doing some tidying up?

I had the similar problem with my MacBook (80GB) & Western Digital external HD (250GB). Every **** hour the process started: "preparation" taking 15 minutes and backing up 5 - 10GB EVERY hour. Even if I had only changed few files in my Documents-folder and used Mail and web browser.
I excluded all system/library folders so that Time Machine backed up only my personal files (pictures & documents). STILL the hourly backup was HUGE and consumed a lot of system resources and heating up my MacBook. And I swear I didn't change huge amounts of big files, not even close to the amount being backed up every hour.
Last drop was when TM announced that the space available was not enough to make a backup (isn't TM supposed to remove old backups to make space???). I stopped using TM since it was unusable, I hope there major issues will be fixed in a system update in the near future.

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