# .nodes.process.cpu.percent meaning

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-process-cpu-percent-meaning/69071>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 14, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-process-cpu-percent-meaning/69071 "2016-12-14T19:03:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brandon\_Metcalf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Brandon\_Metcalf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Metcalf)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-process-cpu-percent-meaning/69071/1 "2016-12-14T19:03:50Z")

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I'm trying to understand the meaning of the following:

```
curl -s 'https://<url>/_cluster/stats' | jq '. | {percent: .nodes.process.cpu.percent}'
{
  "percent": 192
}

```

How can this be larger than 100?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-process-cpu-percent-meaning/69071/2 "2017-01-11T19:03:53Z")

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