load 1 at idle, 2.4.12-ac3

[martin sepulveda]

hi

while using 2.4.12-ac3 (plus rik's 2.4.12-ac3-vmpatch), y get a load of about 1, while
doing the same on a 2.4.10 gave about 0.10 - 0.15 load

root@core:~# uptime
  1:47pm  up  5:36,  4 users,  load average: 1.11, 1.02, 1.04
root@core:~# 

while a top doesn't show nothing to happen:

  1:48pm  up  5:36,  4 users,  load average: 1.05, 1.01, 1.03
89 processes: 81 sleeping, 8 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  2.7% user,  1.7% system,  0.0% nice, 95.4% idle
Mem:   126992K av,  100044K used,   26948K free,     196K shrd,    2588K buff
Swap:  265032K av,   17788K used,  247244K free                   62348K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 2721 root      15  -1 23668  10M  1468 R <   2.5  8.6   6:51 X
11778 root      10   0  1068 1068   820 R     0.3  0.8   0:00 top
    1 root       8   0    80   68    68 S     0.0  0.0   0:03 init
    3 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
    4 root      19  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:01 kswapd

slackware 8.0, X 4.1.0, fvwm 1.24r, xfstt, esd, apache, mysql (both without
any connection but running).
P III 550, 128 MB, IDE HD (1), epic100 module for eth0, advansys module
for a CDR.

any idea?

M.

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