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Understand %CPU > 100% While Running top Command – Ubuntu Tutorial

If we use top command to check the usage of cpu and memory on ubuntu, we may find the percent of cup is bigger than 100%.

Look at below:

Why %CPU > 100%?

The main reason is that your computer is a multi-core system.

For example, if you have 4 cores, theĀ %393.3 is the total usage of all cores.