Why CPU utilization is not distributed evenly across all cores?
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 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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