> However, your statement of "idle with no major activity" makes me
> think you're not expecting to see any...

Acroread under the linux emulator on the i386 port will bump the load
average by 1.  Interestingly acroread also uses 0.01 seconds of cpu /
2 seconds when idle.  The latter is observable with "watch ps -xl".

-wolfgang
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