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Mac OS X Activity Monitor - what does "CPU Time" tell me?
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What does "CPU Time" tell me about the process? Is it the accumulated time the process has run? It sometimes jumps a few seconds and often nothing happens.
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You have lots of applications running in "parallel", competing for system resources, such as the CPU. CPU time tells you how long a particular process has actively used the CPU while it's been running. Imagine a process constantly using 10% CPU, and…
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