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My messenger Application is using more than 100% CPU usage.How can one program use more CPU than I have? What is that percentage based on?ScreenShot of Activity monitor showing more CPU Usage

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It's per CPU core. A two-core CPU can go to 200%, 4-core to 400%, etc.

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