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by Alifatisk 933 days ago
Dumb question but those any percent over 100 mean?

I know 100% is full cpu usage, but what does 700% mean?

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It means that your cpu has 7x more work to do than it is capable of executing. 100% is a full load of a single core, 700% will be 7 cores working at 100% each.
Thanks