-**User CPU consumption** is calculated as a percentage of the user workload limits in each service objective. **User CPU utilization** at 100% indicates that the user workload has reached the limit of the service objective. However, when **total CPU consumption** reaches the 70-100% range, it's possible to see user workload throughput flattening out and query latency increasing, even if reported **user CPU consumption** remains significantly below 100%. This is more likely to occur when using smaller service objectives with a moderate allocation of compute resources, but relatively intense user workloads, such as in [dense elastic pools](elastic-pool-resource-management.md). This can also occur with smaller service objectives when internal processes temporarily require additional resources, for example when creating a new replica of the database, or backing up the database.
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