How to read the Stock CPU Usage data

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XGouchet picture XGouchet · May 31, 2012 · Viewed 110.8k times · Source

On Ice Cream Sandwich, an option in the Developer Options is "Show CPU Usage", which adds an overlay on the screen (see screenshot below).

My question is, how do I read the data ? I guessed that the package names are the process currently actives, but what does the red and green bars behind mean ? Also what are the 3 numbers on top of the packages ?

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Answer

nkr picture nkr · May 31, 2012

This should be the Unix load average. Wikipedia has a nice article about this.

The numbers show the average load of the CPU in different time intervals. From left to right: last minute/last five minutes/last fifteen minutes

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