Hi,

I'm having trouble understanding how ps aux and htop take measurements, or rather ps aux, because in this case I trust htop. I've running a container with a cpu limit of 0,2 (so 20%) and then started a loop process which runs over and over.
htop shows me constantly:
Wheras ps aux shows:
(of course I've run ps aux over and over just to make sure)
I don't understand where the difference lies.

It seems though that measurement of ps aux increases slightly by 0.1 every 30 seconds, maybe?
Is there some kind of delay? I don't really get it and I find it very misleading.

Now it's reached 16.8

Never mind, I should have searched on the internet first - the cpu percentage shown by ps refers to the whole lifetime of the process.

So would the first iteration of htop.

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