Understanding docker stats cpu utilization

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When I do docker stats I see that usage is greater than 100% most of the times. I have a machine which has 8 cores. So, does below output mean that 100% CPU means one core is totally occupied. So, 690% means close to 7 cores is totally occupied ?

d99e067cfffc        690.00%             5.517 GiB / 12.7 GiB    43.46%              1.47 GB / 1.03 GB   9.15 MB / 0 B       338
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Exactly as you stated. You can have up to N * 100% CPU usage when N is the number of cores you have.

By the way, you can run the container with a --cpus <your_num> flag to limit the usage of CPU cores if you like.
More details in the official docs.

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