50% of even a single modern core seems high, 50% of multiple cores (i.e. one or more complete cores) seems really high. Unless the computer is acting as a high-bandwidth router.

I'm not familiar with the CA product, but I assume you can turn off DPI if it's a problem. Maybe you could post in a CA forum or start a tech support incident. Or maybe there's an update that addresses the issue.

>Thanks, upgraded to v14.0 now it shows. Looks like it is the deep packet inspection kmxids.sys with CA Total Defense, 50% seems high don't you think.
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>>On my Win7 box, ProcessExplorer shows System as a sub-node of System Idle Process. If I right-click on System and go into its Properties, then click on the Threads tab, it lists 134 threads, and shows real-time CPU utilization of each. This is Process Explorer v12.04.
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>>>Yes it does, but it doesn't give the individual CPU utilization of the 140 odd processes running under the system process.
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>>>>>Hi,
>>>>> Is anyone aware of how to check the CPU utilization of the Associated Modules attached to the System Image in Resource Monitor.
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>>>>> I have a workstation that the system image is running at 50% constantly and I need to know which module(s) are consuming the CPU.
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>>>>By default, ProcessExplorer shows some sub-components of System, maybe that would be useful? Right-clicking on a process offers Properties, with Threads within that.