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I have a Macbook pro running OS 10.8.4 (Mountain Lion) and it displayed a process of over 100% as shown on the enclosed. This should of never occurred and is indicative of a hidden processas the operating system assigns the amount of process space to be used.
Does anyone have an idea as to how this could of occurred?
 

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Intell

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This happens very often and is no indication of anything besides normal computer operation. Mac OS X computes CPU usage correctly with each core or thread being 100%. Windows does things different where all cores total equal 100%. In your case, that process is using one core's complete amount of cycles and 0.9% of another cores.
 

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100% would be the equivalent of 1 full hyperthread actually, not 1 core.
 
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