If your Mac freezes and you see the spinning rainbow wheel, immediately click on the Payload icon in the menu bar.

Once installed, Payload sits at the top right of your screen. Unlike the generic "Activity Monitor," Payload breaks down complex data into readable charts.

Open Terminal and type:

top

You will see a dynamically updating list of processes. Key metrics to watch during a paceload operation:

Simplest guide:

uptime
# or
sysctl -n vm.loadavg

Or watch live:

watch -n 2 'sysctl -n vm.loadavg'

(Install watch via brew install watch if needed.)

The new "Paceload" benchmark for AI tasks. It loads the Neural Engine, GPU, and CPU simultaneously.

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For enterprise users, "Paceload" could be a third-party MDM solution. These tools allow IT admins to pace software loads across hundreds of Macs simultaneously by using bandwidth throttling and deployment schedules. If you are searching for "Paceload Mac Top" in a corporate context, you might be looking for how to prioritize a package deployment in Jamf Pro while watching CPU usage via top.