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System CPU is overloaded

On my mid 2020 MacBook Pro 8 core 16gb of ram in activity monitor it shows my system CPU percentage as red. Is that ok?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Jan 13, 2021 9:32 AM

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Posted on Jan 13, 2021 9:56 AM

Red is System at under 5 percent

Blue is User, at under an additional ten percent

Black is idle and a remaining 84.57 percent.


that is NOT overwhelmed at all.


But if your Mac is idle, those numbers suggest you have too much stuff running in the background, such as third-party anti-virus, dropbox or other non-Mac native file-syncers, or Chrome Browser, a notorious resource hog even when idle.


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Jan 13, 2021 9:56 AM in response to A-Banana

Red is System at under 5 percent

Blue is User, at under an additional ten percent

Black is idle and a remaining 84.57 percent.


that is NOT overwhelmed at all.


But if your Mac is idle, those numbers suggest you have too much stuff running in the background, such as third-party anti-virus, dropbox or other non-Mac native file-syncers, or Chrome Browser, a notorious resource hog even when idle.


System CPU is overloaded

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