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How can a single thread use 200% CPU usage?

From the screenshot above of htop output you can see that mysql is apparently using 204% of CPU usage (this is a CentOS server with dual quad-core Intel Xeons). However only one core (8) is doing ...
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How can I receive top-like CPU statistics from the shell?

I'm trying to get an accurate read of my used CPU (in percent) from top. This is the command I'm running for testing: top -n1 | awk '/Cpu\(s\):/ {print $2}' This returns: 10.7%us, Which is the ...