How to go from CPU time to CPU utilization?

I'm trying to recognize a run away threads in my own application and close them for good before they render machine inaccessible.

However, I can only get CPU time for the thread, that is limitation of API I'm using. Is there any way to evaluate CPU utilization from that da开发者_开发百科ta?

I was thinking about comparing it to real time and if it is close - than that thread is loading CPU too much. What do you think about that heuristic, will it work?

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CPU time divided by real time will give you CPU utilization.