Activity monitor question

[grooveattack]

hi there
in the activity monitor is CPU usage shown as a percent? for example itunes at the mo is showing a CPU usage of 7.6........ 7.6 what?
cheers

 

[alfogator]

Yes, it is expressed as percentage of utilization of a single core. If you have more than one cpu core you might see values over 100: for two cores the max is 200, for four 400 and so on.