Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au> writes:

> usually I'm not very concerned about the load averages on my system, but
> this seems to be rather strange....

I see this as well.

I tend to have a load average of 1.8+ with one RC5 cracker running,
and .80+ without.  I see this on one machine, but not on another, both
running 1.4.

--Michael