On Ice Cream Sandwich an option in the Developer Options is Show CPU Usage which adds an overlay on the screen see screenshot below My question is how do I read the data I guessed that the package names are the process currently actives but what does the red and green bars behind mean Also what are the 3 numbers on top of the packages

How to read the Stock CPU Usage data

This should be the Unix load average. Wikipedia has a nice article about this.

The numbers show the average load of the CPU in different time intervals. From left to right: last minute/last five minutes/last fifteen minutes

~ Answered on 2012-05-31 08:01:32