on a 1.4.1 machine top shows:

load averages:  1.11,  1.20,  1.20
20:56:56
77 processes:  2 running, 75 sleeping
CPU states:  4.5% user,  0.0% nice,  4.1% system,  1.8% interrupt, 89.6%
idle
Memory: 30M Act 5012K Inact 588K Wired 21M Free 7904K Swap 121M Swap free 


however, none of the processes seem to be taking any significant CPU time

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
27082 xxxxx     10    0   512K  240K run     1:20  1.17%  1.17% fvwm2
  236 xxxxx     28    0   380K  308K run     0:00  1.17%  1.03% top


CPU drops after that. 

Any ideas why the load is pegged near 1?

Thanks

-Dan