[Re: my seeing weird, almost "random" load average fluctuation]

>I think this is caused by a bug in the new xterm from XFree86 3.1.2E
>beta. 
>It has already been fixed. If you can't live with those funny load
>averages until the next XFree86 beta release, revert to the 3.1.2D
>xterm.
>					Matthieu

Moving the xterm binary back to 3.1.2D did the trick!  Things are back
to normal.  Thanks, Matthieu.

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