On my Debian server 8. The load on each core is unevenly distributed, as seen in the screenshot, the first 4 core load of about 90 +++% for others it does not exceed 30% -50%. On the server, game servers are running. All started without reference to a specific processor core (ie, must be distributed evenly). At first I thought it was energy saving and lowering / raising CPU frequency, but disable it in the BIOS – did not help. Tell me what could be the problem?
uname -a
Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 # 1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1 + deb8u2 (2016-10-19) x86_64 GNU / Linux
Best Answer
That is perfectly normal.
Few processes are written to utilize more than one core at a time. When I see a process that uses more than one, it's unusual, either on my multiprocessor/multicore RHEL servers or the Ubuntu and Mint desktops here.
I have never seen an htop screen like yours, I think that's as balanced as you could hope for.
And I doubt that you will ever see all those cores nearly perfectly balanced for more than a fraction of a second. :-)