Thats what I was referring to as being a major difference. CPU Usage is the exact usage at that very moment. CPU Time, is the total usage during the timeslice. Which is how I guage the performance of a product when writting reviews and such, and determining what to keep on my box. Its one thing to look at the CPU usage when you run an application, that tells me very little in relation to the overall picture. Looking at CPU Time is where its at - I wanted make sure he understood the important, and distinct differences between what I was inquiring about, and what he was reporting.
On a similar note, I disabled un-used services, such as the Internet Mail, P2P (I use Azureus BT Client anyway, and thats not supported), and MSN/IM protection (I don’t have file transfers on there anyway). Now the CPU time is a fragment of what it was before. Only :05 after 3 hours of uptime. So one of those modules, that wasn’t even being used, was definately causing a rundown of my cpu time.
Regards.