What is the 'deleted' daemon in macOS?
I came here due to an issue on my MacBook Pro (2018 15&quot;) running on macOS Catalina 10.15.7.
In fact, the deleted process was showing up in my process list and consuming around 50% CPU - more or less. After following some hints which I found here and there (deinstalling iStats, resetting SMC and so on) I realized that this process kept on being open as long as my About this Mac window was open. The deleted process disappears shortly after closing the About this Mac window.