Why CPU utilization is not distributed evenly across all cores?

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Issue

  • System shows 100% CPU utilization on one CPU while 20-30% CPU utilization on remaining CPU's. Why is it not evenly distributed ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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