Resolution:
When running "top" from the linux prompt, press the #1 key you can see how individual cores are being utilized.
top - 22:32:48 up 4 days, 9:02, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 79 total, 1 running, 78 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.7%hi, 7.7%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 92.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.7%hi, 7.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.7%hi, 7.6%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.3%id, 0.0%wa, 1.3%hi, 7.4%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4151572k total, 247228k used, 3904344k free, 64k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 48964k cached
Workaround
n/a