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CPU usage indicate how much of a workload is being handled by the CPU.

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My CPU is working on 100% until I open Task manager

I am here because I have a problem. My CPU is working at 100% (while I am idle) until I open Task Manager. When I open Task Manager it shows that my CPU is on 100% and after a half seconds it ...
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My laptop has heavy CPU load when playing SOME games

I just got my hands on a used Alienware 13 R3 with these specs: QuadCore Intel Core i7-7700HQ, 3400 MHz (34 x 100) , 6MB cache 12157 MB RAM (12 GB) nVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Dell) , 6 GB vRam (DirectX ...
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Remote Servers Disk Space Report

I have writtern a script which will take the servers details from a text file and export the Disk space, RAM and CPU utilization details for multiple servers and the script is working a expected. ...
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Windows 11 reduces apps CPU load when showing desktop

I have a Windows 11 Pro Workstation on a MSI motherboard with an I9 chip on it. The workstation should do heavy CPU work during hours / days. I monitor energy consumption. Everything is working fine ...
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System interrupts 49% cpu usage [duplicate]

how can I check if its a software or hardware problem? I've tried to unplug all USB ports (mouse, keyboard) but nothing happened. does a bad battery can cause this problem ?
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Getting a lot of x44 temp tasks in my Linux Server

There are a lot of tasks as shown in the below image, Not sure, how and what to do. Due to this there is a 90+% of CPU consumption in htop Anyone can help me out? I am using Apache Server with ...
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Windows 11 high CPU usage on window resizing

I opened Task Manager. When I put the mouse in its window's border and resize the window rapidly, make it bigger then make it smaller and doing this continuously for a few seconds, strangely CPU usage ...
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Windows 11 Alderlake 12900KF at 100% on ALL cores

My new Alderlake 12900KF is running most time at 100% an ALL 24 virtual cores with temperature and fan speed going up as well. Directly after startup everything seems to be fine, but after a while ...
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Windows explorer slow, specifically after opening an archive

I recently noticed my windows explorer drastically slowing down and increasing its CPU usage after having opened a zip, a problem that stays even AFTER having navigated out of the zip. With this I ...
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How can I prevent Windows Defender from using my computer's CPU on Microsoft Windows 10?

I use Microsoft Windows 10. I don't want to use Windows Defender. Therefore I disabled it, but it continues to use my computer's CPU. How can I prevent that? Here's how I tried to disabled Windows ...
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FFMPEG desktop capture randomly stops streaming to RTMP endpoint. Why?

I am using the following FFMPEG command for desktop streaming to an RTMP endpoint: ffmpeg.exe -report -fflags nobuffer -framerate 30 -use_wallclock_as_timestamps 1 -f gdigrab -thread_queue_size 256 -...
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Wifi disconnects when System process takes lot of CPU

I have Windows 10 in my laptop. Suddenly, the System process is taking up more CPU and also the System Interrupts process starts. When it happens, my wifi connection gets disconnected and it shows &...
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How do I check when CPU or GPU usage exceeds a certain amount for programs on Windows?

I am working with Windows and I am wanting to check when the CPU and GPU usage of a program exceeds a certain amountin order to run a batch script. Is there some way I can do this?
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Merge cpu cores for specific program [duplicate]

Minecraft is an old game that was coded to use only one core, which is bad for performance today, so I was thinking if there is a way to like merge 2 cores for that specific program and make the ...
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Why is my CPU not maxed out? [duplicate]

I have a simple Node script in VS Code that is: instantiating a 300x300x300 array of booleans, initializing every element to false iterating through the array to flip true/false depending on a ...
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Why do i have so many processes spawned with the same name? [duplicate]

How come so many processes exist with the same name for basically every application on my system? Spotify, Firefox and other apps all do this and sometimes opening a few additional tabs means that my ...
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Does git cause Windows 10 Explorer to hang with 100% one-core usage, usually inside zip files, since the Dec 2021 update?

Since the Dec 2021 monthly update on two different machines with Windows 10 I have seen the same behavior: entering a zip file file from Explorer results in 100% one-CPU-core usage that persists until ...
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How can I stop Ubuntu 20.04 from restricting my cpu space?

After installation of Ubuntu 20.04 everything was working well. However, after installing and using some applications (Matlab and Matlab/Dynare) Ubuntu seems to limit my cpu usage. I use openMP and a ...
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A process inside "System" causes periodic slowdown

I've read some other pages but most of them describe the process taking massive amounts of CPU constantly. I've encountered this on pretty much every computer that has been with me for a long time, so ...
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The task manager is completely crazy. The math doesnt even add up to the complete CPU or CPU usage

As you can see, the math doesn't even add up to the actual usage This has been happening ever since I have been using my monitor on my laptop. Please do help.
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High CPU in windows explorer

I'm getting a high CPU usage with Windows 10 file explorer even without file explorer open. I've run malwarebytes, checked its not built in zip functionality, nor Intel Optane pinning. Procexp doesn't ...
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Stop Google Drive for Desktop Hogging CPU after Boot?

Every machine in my office has the google drive client taking upwards of 90% of CPU resources after boot/restart.This causes extreme system slowdown and effective downtime. When I kill & restart ...
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DPD webiste using almost 100% of CPU

Currently sat in the DPD Live chat page waiting for someone to respond. But my PC is at its limit... Thought something was wrong when I heard the fans ramp up to full, checked task manager and Chrome ...
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Power usage in Task Manager says "very high"

I am running the next parts: SMPS 750W Ryzen 9 3900x RTX 3060 24 inches led monitor These parts are connected to 600 VA ups and wherever I run a software I see my power usage shoot up very high and ...
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CPU Stays at 25% Sometimes - Immense Lag

When I run heavy applications such as a game or multiple instances of something, my computer lags a lot. My task manager only shows that I am using 25 percent of CPU (keep in mind that all of the cpu ...
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Pinpoint cause of sluggish computer

I have a brand new Windows 10 laptop. I use it only for mainstream office programs. Despite top-of-the-line hardware, the laptop feels sluggish. It gets really hot despite sitting idle, and the ...
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"System" process High CPU usage (ntoskrnl.exe)

From time to time the system process takes a lot of CPU, this causes my computer to freeze and lasts for a few seconds (5-10s). Mostly happens when playing games, while playing it happens every few ...
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Google Drive using huge amounts of CPU

I have a similar issue to the ones discussed here and here , but those threads are several years old and I was hoping that there are new fixes. I switched from Filestream to Google Drive recently. ...
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CompatTelRunner.exe is causing 100% CPU usage

Since my last Windows 10 Update, CompatTelRunner.exe is causing 100% CPU usage after Windows start. This results in not being able to use my computer for a long time. How can I fix this? Windows OS ...
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Load average is high, CPU usage is low, what's going on?

I'm running Docker on a RPi3B+, with only 4 containers so far: Portainer, PiHole, NGINX Proxy Manager and its database. Some slowdowns (a delay after entering a command on the CLI) have caused me to ...
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Windows - Long freezing busy process after restart following sudden turn off

I've accidentally snapped my Windows because of power issue while playing a video from a locally remote computer. After booted again it first prompted me whether I want to fix or restart. I chose to ...
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CPU being used up by some background process

I have a fairly new windows 10 laptop that I've been using, and today it was running very slowly. I opened up my task manager and found these background processes that are collectively taking up ...
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MacBook is laggy when switching apps

On my MacBook I experience lags when switching apps or when the debugger hits an exception/breakpoint and brings my IDE to the top. The CPU usage is quite low, as you can see in the following image. ...
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Any way to compute watts a processor is using?

I have an Intel 10900 (non K and non F). The TDP is listed at 65 watts however my understanding is that this is the max heat generated at the baseline clock which is 2.8 GHz. My processor is running ...
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Using only 50% of CPU in Acer one 14 Z422

The above image did not take while running CPU-hungry applications. I am using Acer one 14 Z422. I installed Windows 10 pro. Updated to 21H1 update and installed all optional updates. The base ...
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High CPU usage by ntoskrnl.exe!KiStartSystemThread

I have noticed that from some time my system is freezing and its probably caused by the high CPU usage which is caused by the system process. I have installed Windows Performance Toolkit, and here's ...
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High memory usage, but low CPU usage?

I´m trying to merge large data frames, using R. My computer CPU has 3GHz intel Core i5 Quad-core, with 8GB RAM. I´m using the Reduce function, I´m not using a loop. All data frames are in a list, ...
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CPU Limitation by a process in linux?

So I have this lovely tool I wrote. It runs a whole bunch of simultaneous network operations but nothing INTENSIVE. For some reason on Linux it ends up consuming a lot of CPU cycles and the UI freezes....
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Chrome taking 90% CPU in the background

Whenever I boot up my PC and open task manager Chrome is shown to be taking 90% cpu with no active windows open, this is just something in the background. I have tried: reinstalling Chrome disabling ...
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Linux command that returns current CPU usage

Is there a command or utility that can return the current CPU usage? just like whats shown on htop. htop usage view so that: command Output: 70.0% 44.4%
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Windows cmd dir hogging CPU

I have a couple of these "Windows command Processor" (cmd) running a dir command and taking 10-15% CPU constantly, heating everything up and well hogging CPU. I also see findstr running ...
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100% Cpu Utilization

the 100% cpu load is very annoying and make the device run hotter weather its a desktop or laptop also the programs crashes with weird bug . i have a Lenovo laptop G500 with windows 8.1 x64 bit ...
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CPU hitting 100% usage at every new task

So it's been a while since I upgraded my HDD to an SSD, and my disk is no longer the bottleneck. But for the past few weeks my CPU hits 100% if I open any new task. It doesn't matter what I open, I ...
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processor running continuously at 100%

HP elitebook 840 G3 windows 10 pro 64bit PROCESSOR (i5 6300U) processor continuously runs at 100% key services: HP network prioritizer  ~27% - very high power requirement MS Windows search protocol ...
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Getting Blue Screen code("Driver Power State Failure") when updating or installing windows 10 and High CPU usage

Edit: Fixed the issue The issue was of incompatible hdd caddy. Changed the caddy for a new one. The blue screen error and the System process using too much cpu both got fixed. Whenever I try to update ...
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Explorer.exe using 10% CPU constantly

I searched the internet for any clues, but unfortunately they were mostly related to SHcore or ntoskrnl and I think my sample is kind of different. After some time of using the PC explorer.exe goes ...
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System process constantly between 20-30% cpu usage

I've reinstalled Windows 10 onto my Acer Aspire V5 laptop and have noticed that it starts to get laggy - where I'll move the mouse/type/click on something and it will take a few seconds to respond. I'...
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CPU max utilization limited to 1/N CPU’s for MOST multi-threaded Apps on any Win OS : WHY?

I understand multi-threading and tasking to some extent but know that outside of the OS, most Windows Apps are limited to using only 1/N CPU’s for averaged max. utilization. That is 50% for a dual ...
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Find process running in CPU core Win10

I have a multi-core Win10 machine. Some process consumes 100% CPU in a core, while overall CPU consumption remains low. I can identify the core - but not the process running in it. Need to figure out ...
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Windows computer with contradictory CPU readings

Disclaimer before I begin: I'm giving tech support to my father in a different country over Zoom, so I don't have easy access to his computer, and I may take a while to respond to further info ...
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