Here is a curiosity question about CPU usage in Windows XP -- not
important, just wondering. This question shows my ignorance of the
computer.
I notice that the computer execution speed seems independent of the CPU
usage. For example, suppose that two processes are running
simultaneously, with one normally taking up 50% of CPU speed as shown by
Task Manager if running alone, the other normally taking up 20% of CPU
if running alone. Thus, 80% of processor speed is in use, leaving 20%
idle. Both use disk access but not excessively. But it seems that both
programs are slowed down quite a bit -- one would think that there would
be little slowdown (allowing for some disk & RAM reads/writes).
Why is there such a great slowdown on execution time that, I think,
can't be explained by the disk bottleneck?
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