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Infrared

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Mar 28, 2007
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It's rather hot here, so I thought I'd use the "Power Saver"
power plan to keep the machine running cool. I don't need
maximum performance at the moment, so I can tolerate the
slowdown.

The processor maximum for this "Power Saver" plan is 50%
and yet I can see some cores sometimes hitting 100% in the
task manager. I'd be grateful is someone could explain to me
why this is. Is the 50% a per core setting or is it 50% across
all cores (cumulative cpu usage)?

Thanks.
 
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