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What does the percent CPU mean?
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I am watching my CPU percent utilization by a process. How does a process use only 50% CPU? Doesn't a process use 100% then 0%, then 100%? Its not like every other instruction is a different program.
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It only polls totals about once per second. You're looking at how much of the last second it used. If you see a cpu sitting at 50% for a little while, what's likely going on is that it's using 100% of one cpu in a dual cpu system.
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