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I don't understand how can the CPU utilization of my Linux system be 101 for a process on Linux system. What does the %CPU actually indicate if it is not percentage utilization?

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME  COMMAND
ubuntu    2504  101 89.3 70072464 56086520 pts/1 Rl+ 18:40 277:26 python xyz.py
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    Does this answer your question? [top output: cpu usage > 100%](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34435/top-output-cpu-usage-100) Also: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/145247/70524 – muru Apr 05 '21 at 02:14
  • You have multiple CPUs (cores), so its a percentage of all the available CPUs. For a quad core system, thats 400% – john doe Apr 05 '21 at 14:12

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