Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation central processing unit
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Computers), acronym The
central processing unit , that part of the electronic circuitry of a computer in which the arithmetic and logical operations are performed on input data, which are thereby converted to output data; it is usually located on the mainboard, or motherboard, of a computer. The CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached. Most personal computers as of 1998 had only one CPU, but some computers may have more than one CPU.
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- initialism electronics, computing
central processing unit - noun video games Any character or entity controlled by the game software.
- noun slang the main computer case containing the central components of a
personal computer
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
- noun (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
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Examples
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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx based on your screenshot, this is not true. it is ironic, but the graphical system monitor you are using? it itself uses a huge amount of CPU power to run. you can see this in the system monitor itself. go to processes and sort by CPU%. take it off your panel & dont run it.
Ubuntu Forums jotto! 2010
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CPU% is the percentage (0-100, number only) of CPU resources allowed for the app.
LXer Linux News bob@lxer.com 2010
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Re: High CPU usage, nothing running. based on your screenshot, this is not true. it is ironic, but the graphical system monitor you are using? it itself uses a huge amount of CPU power to run. you can see this in the system monitor itself. go to processes and sort by CPU%. take it off your panel & dont run it.
Ubuntu Forums jotto! 2010
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Multiplying cpu usage from top by CPU frequency it was using 1. 8GHz for the couch scenes and 1. 2GHz for the plate scenes.
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Ok, so if I'm getting ~50\% on TV1 with a 2. 5Ghz cpu versus your 10-20\% on your 2GHz cpu, it looks like not a lot of CPU acceleration is happening.
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Unplug the power cord of ur cpu than remove the side panel (left) of cpu and clean the dust inside processor fan with a dry paint brush then start CPU and see processor fan running or not if not, if not running you have to change it
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Mon Oct 20 14: 00: 51 2008 panic (cpu 0 caller 0x001A49CB): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14 = page fault), registers:
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Tue Oct 21 21: 18: 35 2008 panic (cpu 0 caller 0x001A49CB): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14 = page fault), registers:
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* - cpu description: CPU product: Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU 2. 80GHz vendor: Intel Corp.
Ubuntu Forums Vahids 2010
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There isn't a laptop in the world that can keep up to the kind of performance I'm getting on this system and the CPU is already 2 generations behind.
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