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    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 65 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    Well it does make sense that the CPU has to work a bit when loading a new program.

    [–] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 38 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    All four cores at 100%? We don't see that kind of spike when we open some other application right? Is it the experience of everyone? Or am I wrong in this?

    [–] Eheran@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Unless bottlenecked somewhere else, we would want to see 100 % with everything that takes more than some milliseconds.

    [–] c10l@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

    This is the real answer. Other apps might be bottlenecked by IO so the CPU doesn’t work as hard. Get faster disks, the CPU will see more use. Since top is so small that it loads into memory almost instantly, and has no need for further IO, the CPU is free to spin all the way!

    People get worked up when CPU usage is high, but unless there’s a resource leak somewhere, that just means the computer is working at full efficiency.

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