what is the cpu meter gadget on my laptop for?

[CarlMalolNe]

i was going to the gadgets on my laptop and there's a cpu meter, what is it for?? any info. would help

[Brandon]

The two gauges show how much of your computer is being used at the moment. The bigger gauge is showing you how much of the processor you are using. The smaller one shows how much memory (RAM) you are using. If either gauge goes into the red you will notice your computer slowing down. If that happens, close some of your programs you have running in your taskbar.

[AfrozeIbrahim]

The basic backbone of the computer is a processor (CPU or central processing unit), which is responsible for all the calculations that run at the back-end which result in whatever that you see on the computer screen. The processor has a limit of how much calculations it can do at one time. Every application you run (some you run yourself, some are always running to support the operating system, some are ideal and only run automatically when the cpu is free) require some sort of calculations in order to run..so the more applications you run at one time, it means the calculations that are taking place at one time start to increase, so does the processing power required. The cpu meter just shows what percentage of processing power is being currently utilized in contrast to the total processing power. If you open up a lot of applications and your processor isn't very powerful you may experience a bottleneck with the processor, that is when the programs start to lag and you restart your computer or close down lots of programs for it to return to normal speed. (Although there are other reasons for lag, this is one of them.)

[Jeremy]

telling you your usage. if the meter goes to 30, that means you are using 30% of your computers usage. usually referring to ram.

[Ryan]

This gadget monitors the usage of your computers processor.

[Solmors]

Its showing what percent of your processor you are currently using. You will notice at startup or when launching a program the meter will spike up to or near to 100%, but fall back to the 5-10% range while idling. It's not really that useful, more interesting than anything I guess.