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by vfaronov 3231 days ago
Worth remembering that essentially the same issue exists at a lower level: the “%Cpu” number as shown by top includes not just the share of time spent actually executing your instructions, but also the share of time waiting on memory access.

As explained by the same author: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-09/cpu-utilization-...