CPU usage reporting in ps versus top
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Both top and ps report CPU usage; however, what they report is quite a bit different.
Here's a piece from the ps man page explaining how it calculates % cpu:
cpu utilization of the process in "##.#" format. Currently, it is the CPU time used divided by the time the process has been running (cputime/realtime ratio), expressed ...
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