top - 08:43:16 up 96 days, 22:16, 1 user, load average: 4.03, 3.92, 3.98
Tasks: 199 total, 1 running, 198 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.5%sy, 50.0%ni, 49.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 3.9%sy, 46.8%ni, 49.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 0.0%us, 3.0%sy, 47.5%ni, 49.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 0.0%us, 5.0%sy, 45.5%ni, 49.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3593 foldinga 39 19 276m 80m 2972 S 402 1.0 12:55.42 FahCore_a3.exe
Now, how come top says it's using 100% of the CPU (400% / 4 cores) while exactly half of the processors are idle??
processor : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 30
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3440 @ 2.53GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2526.932
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 6
initial apicid : 6
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips : 5054.02
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
EDIT: In response to i_grok and Max Alginin, I made sure Hyperthreading was enabled on the server. Once I got it turned on, here are the results of top now. Notice, the same symptoms are evident.
top - 10:17:01 up 47 days, 10:28, 3 users, load average: 7.93, 7.96, 8.02
Tasks: 150 total, 1 running, 149 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 2.8%sy, 42.0%ni, 55.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 2.2%sy, 42.5%ni, 55.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 1.2%us, 3.7%sy, 95.1%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 0.0%us, 1.7%sy, 43.1%ni, 55.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu4 : 0.0%us, 1.1%sy, 43.6%ni, 55.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu5 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 44.8%ni, 55.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu6 : 0.0%us, 2.2%sy, 42.5%ni, 55.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu7 : 0.0%us, 1.7%sy, 43.1%ni, 55.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8177700k total, 6258704k used, 1918996k free, 29248k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 5203172k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8132 foldinga 39 19 557m 99m 3060 S 796 1.2 1510:53 FahCore_a3.exe