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OpenCV on Raspberry Pi2 Using 25% CPU

Hi, I am trying to run Opencv on a raspberry pi 2 with Python and the Pi camera. If I have the minimum code to pull a video stream from the camera I get a solid 30 FPS with 640x480. The problem is that if I add any processing to it the frame rate drops dramatically but the CPU usage only goes up by around 5%. The overall usage will not exceed 25%. If I open up top I can see that individual cores go above that no problem but never at once.

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This is what it displays when the program is running.