CPU load drops very low


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Hi

Apologies if this has been discussed. I am running NWChem on a Linux cluster (12 cores/24 threads)
using the following command

/opt/openmpi/bin/mpirun -np 24 nwchem bv6-esp-res.nw >& bv6-esp-res2.out &

The job starts normally on all threads with high CPU load (~100%) but after some seconds
the CPU load drops very low, to ~2%-15%. Also, the number of processes appears to
decrease and fluctuate.

Is this behaviour normal?

Thanks in advance
George