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Setting CPU Usage Reporting Preferences

Enabling CPU usage display will enable you to view your application's processor usage and pick out ones that you may want to pause, or perform some other operation on.

CPU Preferences

Display Average CPU Usage

Enabling this feature will display the average CPU usage of all applications instead of the instantanous CPU usage. The instantanous CPU usage of an application is the usage at the time the application was asked for it's CPU usage, while the average is how much CPU it has used over a long stretch of time.

CPU Usage Polling Interval

This is a important setting that will effect the accuracy of your CPU usage. The smaller the number, the more frequent the application will be asked for its CPU usage (resulting in more accurate CPU usage statistics).

See also

Changing Application's Priority
Pausing An Application
Application Manager Topics