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top is showing several processes with CPU % greater than 100%. What does this indicate?

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Very 1337 Overclocking. :-) – knitti Oct 19 '10 at 23:59
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That the processes are multithreaded and running on multiple cores, and are busying out each core to a percentage that adds up to more than 100%.

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Thank you!! – Joseph Weissman Oct 19 '10 at 21:05
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