On Feb 7, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Jaromir Capik wrote: > What happens on 4 core CPUs, when 3 cores have > only 20 ticks out of 100. > > J. If each of the 3 have 20 tics, then they're all over the 10% threshold. So each will display normally. Each cpu is scaled individually based on only its total tics. Assuming nothing strange happens when a Nehalem core is revived, I expect the % distributions to be spread among user, system, idle, etc. J.