Process Lasso "CPU (%)" lower than Task Manager CPU %

Started by Art Brown, March 24, 2014, 12:07:49 PM

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Art Brown

Greetings,
I noticed that Process Lasso's "CPU (%)" values for CPU-bound processes (BOINC tasks in my case) are lower (~8%) than Task Manager's (~10%) on a core i7-3930K (6 cores, 12 logical) running Windows 8.1.
Also, Process Lasso's "CPU Utilization" value (total CPU %) is about 75% when Task Manager's is about 95%.
I'd just like to understand why the values are different.
A screen grab showing both programs is attached.
Process Lasso Pro x64 version 6.7.0.52.
Please let me know if you need additional info.
Thanks for a great program.
Art Brown

BenYeeHua

Not sure about this...
I guess it is because they are seeing the CPU frequency difference, and calculate difference.

This happen with Process Explorer too, I just run 3 of them, and they are showing difference CPU usage, while Process Explorer showing higher CPU usage than the other 2.

Jeremy Collake

The CPU utilization is an average measurement during varying time intervals, usually 1 second. It will vary between programs depending on when their measurement interval starts/ends, as well as the interval length.

That said, the difference shouldn't be that large, and over time, should equal out such that they are all approximately reporting the same thing.
Software Engineer. Bitsum LLC.