Issue
I am seeing Average CPU Usage at 220% but I thought the max could only reach 100%. How is that possible?
Applies To
- All SaaS Customers and Self-Hosted Users
- Profiling
Resolution
This is because this value is aggregated across multiple CPU cores. On a single-core processor, 100% would indeed be the maximum possible usage. However, modern devices including smartphones and computers typically have multi-core processors, and each of them can be utilized separately. So, for a quad-core processor, the max CPU usage would be 400%.