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by paulmd 2801 days ago
Background services (Discord, etc) use a negligible amount of processor power. It should be like sub-5% on a modern processor, with the processor clocked down to its lowest frequency. With the processor at turbo, you should be pulling 1-3% easily, even actively using multiple tasks.

These days even Chrome is very aggressive about throttling background tabs, much to the consternation of some webdevs here.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/chrom...