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Copper Contributor

Oct 10, 2019

Canary 79.0.299.0 on Mac

Since the release of 79.0.299.0 I am experiencing high CPU usage when Edge is running whether or not I am using the bowser. I can leave it with the home page and it will consume 200% of my CPU withi...

HotCakeX

MVP

Oct 10, 2019

Hi,
does mac always measure CPU usage from 1% to 200% instead of 1% to 100% ?

hmbouk

Copper Contributor

Oct 10, 2019

HotCakeX On my Mac I can see a CPU utilization from 0% to 400% since I have a 4 core i7 processor.

HotCakeX
MVP
Oct 10, 2019
Oh so if my CPU had 16 cores, I would get a 1600% utilization? that seems like it doesn't count the threads otherwise you would get 800% utilization.
anyway, are you also using macOS Catalina?
- hmbouk
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 10, 2019
  HotCakeX Yes, if somehow you could generate enough load that was multi-threaded that would use all of those cores you would see a ridiculous 1600% utilization. And yes, Mac OS X doesn't seem to count threads, just real cores. I'm running Mac OS X Mojave (10.14.6).