Hi, I'm back with some more results.
This is the typical load I'm seeing in the system when communication throughput with MINA is maxed out. I notice I'm only using around 10% of the available processing power. Zigor. top - 13:56:05 up 2:49, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.12, 0.14 Tasks: 196 total, 2 running, 194 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 4.5%us, 4.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 3.5%us, 4.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 92.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu4 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu5 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu6 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu7 : 0.3%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu8 : 0.7%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu9 : 92.7%us, 5.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 1.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu10 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu11 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu12 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu13 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu14 : 14.0%us, 8.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 77.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu15 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 24677232k total, 1123960k used, 23553272k free, 26644k buffers Swap: 25101524k total, 0k used, 25101524k free, 285016k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3015 zigor 20 0 16.3g 171m 9808 S 9.2 0.7 17:28.95 java 33 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.04 kworker/9:0 178 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 kworker/6:1 1571 zigor 20 0 27380 3068 868 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.34 dbus-daemon 1691 zigor 20 0 198m 12m 9500 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.97 metacity 1766 zigor 20 0 374m 19m 10m S 0.0 0.1 0:01.84 unity-panel-ser 3456 zigor 20 0 21568 1532 1084 R 0.0 0.0 0:01.60 top 1 root 20 0 24184 2276 1344 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.34 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.20 ksoftirqd/0 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/1:0 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.82 kworker/0:1 11 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/2