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Activity Monitor %CPU for a task - % of what is indicated?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1819456" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>The values System, User and Idle give you an idea of how much CPU percentage is being used by apps you are running as opposed to the OS. The Idle is, well, percent of your CPU power that is idle. The higher the idle, the more work you can do.</p><p></p><p>The values on the bottom are an aggregate across the entire system. You can look at each of the running processes above to see how much percentage of the User percentage each process is taking. If you sort by % CPU, you will see a number greater than the aggregate below and that's OK since you are now drilling into what percentage of the aggregate a specific process is taking up.</p><p></p><p>For example, currently I'm seeing 3.44% System, 7.70% User and the left over in Idle. Google Chrome is taking 8.9% and Microsoft Outlook is taking up 5.9% (or a combined ~16%) of the 7.70% User aggregate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1819456, member: 110816"] The values System, User and Idle give you an idea of how much CPU percentage is being used by apps you are running as opposed to the OS. The Idle is, well, percent of your CPU power that is idle. The higher the idle, the more work you can do. The values on the bottom are an aggregate across the entire system. You can look at each of the running processes above to see how much percentage of the User percentage each process is taking. If you sort by % CPU, you will see a number greater than the aggregate below and that's OK since you are now drilling into what percentage of the aggregate a specific process is taking up. For example, currently I'm seeing 3.44% System, 7.70% User and the left over in Idle. Google Chrome is taking 8.9% and Microsoft Outlook is taking up 5.9% (or a combined ~16%) of the 7.70% User aggregate. [/QUOTE]
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