Why doesn't multithreading in C# reach 100% CPU?

Question

I\'m working on a program that processes many requests, none of them reaching more than 50% of CPU (currently I\'m working on a dual core). So I created a threa

Answer 1

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but you said none of your requests (each in a separate thread) reaches 100% CPU.

What operating system are you using?

I seem to vaguely recall that in old versions of windows (e.g., early XPs and 2000s), CPU utilization was considered from total of two processors, so a single thread wasn't able to make it past 50% unless it was the idle process..