Units in ardupilot onboard logs on CPU

Hi there,
I have a setup with arduplane and flew it the first time on the cube orange plus. Now I looked over the logs and saw that the CPU is around 91-97(PM.Load). I don’t know that the units are and didn’t find something useful by googling it. The documentation says %d but I’m not sure because I’m using the pretty standard configuration und I don’t think that it uses almost 100% of the computational power.
Could someone what are the units on the CPU usage on the onboard logs?
Thanks in advance
James

Percentage. It’s easy to push it to the limit if you’re using advanced features like multiple notches, FFT, fast loop rate, etc, or if you leave batch logging or other high rate logging enabled.

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Today I did another test flight and enabled some other features to test it. Now it went beyond 100. I saw in the logs numbers around 120-140. Is it possible to pass the 100%?

Share that .bin log.

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I also have a question regarding the units of measurement. In the screenshot, my aircraft’s flight is displayed with the Pixhawk 4 Holybro flight controller. I didn’t enable advanced features in the controller configuration, such as multiple cuts, FFT, fast loop speed, etc., or if you leave batch logging or other high-speed logging enabled.

Please take the look at my file. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FSolubgAjBbpixNlsSiY396m0OJX9bbZ/view?usp=sharing

Try if this one works

Looks like 16%. All good.

The scaling is percent * 1000. So both of you have logs that peak at ~20% CPU load or less.

You can use this tool as well:

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Both of you are also running rather old firmware. Suggest updating to the new 4.6 release.

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