Hi there,

I've upgraded from 2.0_RC3 to 3.0.0_STABLE today, and have noticed that 
with the new kernel I'm having a load constantly above 1.00, even if 
seemingly nothing happens.

   First lines of 'top' output:

load averages:  1.64,  1.64,  1.34                                18:05:37
82 processes:  3 runnable, 78 sleeping, 1 on processor
CPU states:  1.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.0% idle
Memory: 164M Act, 5028K Wired, 29M Exec, 72M File, 49M Free
Swap: 362M Total, 362M Free

   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
   719 bigmac     2    0  5452K 8376K RUN        2:04  0.15%  0.15% xmms
   471 bigmac     2    0  8308K   11M RUN        0:07  0.05%  0.05% irssi
   192 bigmac     2    0    23M   27M RUN        0:24  0.00%  0.00% XFree86
   755 mysql     18    0    34M   16M sigwait    0:06  0.00%  0.00% mysqld
   720 bigmac     2    0   396K 2620K select     0:05  0.00%  0.00% sshd


   This is an i386 box, with a CPU around 711MHz.  What might cause this? I 
don't think this much should make up such a load average.


Thanks in advance.