Quoting Timothy Vogelsang (net@astrolink.org):
...
> Just installed NetBSD as a move (change) from FreeBSD, heard good things
> about hardware support and it appears to be a nice system.  However, I've
> noticed my load is insanely high, sitting around 0.36 Avg after navigating
> myself through the file system.  I've also noticed in TOP that no
> applications are running in the background that would contribute to such a
> thing, is this possibly at the core level of the system?  I havn't found any
> documentation online regarding this issue, I wonder if anyone else has
> bumped into it.

Hmmm, I've got 3 windows open to machines running at loads
of 18, 30 and 50 (being 4-way, 4-way and 8-way respectively).

And 0.36 is "insanely high"!?

methinks it might just be "top" maybe a little init, packets coming
by on the net.  < 0.5 is just background noise to me.