What is holding my mac pro back.

I can never seem to use my full processing power even when playing games, installing things, and video editing.
I was installing the new creative suite the other day and I found a perfect example. I was installing it and it wasnt using hardly any of the power. I took a screen shot.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/37863/Screen%20shot%202009-10-22%20at%209.28.08%20AM. png
I also find the same thing when converting videos or editing, I can never seem to get my mac pro to use all 4 cores effectively, I assume something is holding it back. my specs are below.
mac pro- 2.8 quad, xeon 12mb L2 cache.
ram- 4gb 800mhz its low but I always have 500+mb free
video- 8800gt 512mb
any help on what I should do.
Thanks
Neil Toor

CS4 loves to have free cache memory, memory for the OS, so while you have .5G free, you aren't giving it the breathing room it wants.
Actually, pegging processors at 80% isn't really necessary. Compressor 3.x, Handbrake64, and some other apps may.
Using 4 cores and more - efficiently - is why Grand Central Dispatch (read: better compilers to make parallel code efficient) is on the ground floor, too.
Having 8 DIMMs also bumps memory bandwidth a bit.
Wait for CS5 and above, give software developers a year. Maybe look at where hardware is a year or 18 months down the road when things catch up and come together.
And be sure to upgrade and optimize your storage: boot drive, scratch and the rest.

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