It could be because your chipset has hyper-threading enabled and the chips are malfunctioning. Henrique de Moraes Holschuh, a Debian Linux developer, revealed the Intel chip problem on the Debian ...

If you compare the SMP diagram with the hyper-threading diagram, you can see that the same amount of work gets done in both systems, but the hyper-threaded system uses a fraction of the resources ...

and the Linux developer confirmed that using simultaneous multi-threading with AMD chips is indeed a safe option (going by what’s known at the current time, anyway). However, before all Intel ...