# Issue with one processor always being maxed out.

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [May 20, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/issue-with-one-processor-always-being-maxed-out/12302 "2006-05-20T18:32:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![chino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/issue-with-one-processor-always-being-maxed-out/12302/7 "2006-05-21T12:48:20Z")

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sounds like system idle process is only running on one processor

doubt it is a coincidence (sp) that it is exactly 50% with nothing open 😛

edit: also don’t you get the dual graph in task mgr? Run an app and check the utilization after the system is doing something else and see what it looks like

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