I have the following process:
PID = 1245
p = psutil.Process(PID)
When I calculate the cpu utilization of this process:
print(p.cpu_percent())
it gives something like 25%. While the whole CPU utilization is about 3%:
print(psutil.cpu_pecent())
How come? How can I get a representative percentage of this particular process ?
Most likely due to the 3% being total usage over all cores while 25% is usage of a single core capacity. You can always look at the documentation of psutil.cpu_percent() and psutil.Process.cpu_percent() to get some more in-depth explanation of the behaviour.
To get the usage of total system capacity you need to divide it by the number of CPUs you got access to:
PID = 1245
p = psutil.Process(PID)
tot_load_from_process = p.cpu_percent()/psutil.cpu_count()
print(tot_load_from_process)
print(psutil.cpu_pecent())