Why only few CPU cores are heavily utilized on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • Only few CPU cores (example: 16/17/23) are heavily utilized on RHEL 5.3 system, running Oracle database.
  • Why only few CPU cores are heavily utilized?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • HP Proliant G7 (2 x 6-cores)

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