On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:38 PM, frantisek holop <min...@obiit.org> wrote: > it seems that since a couple of snapshots back, > load never goes below 1.00 anymore on both of my > notebooks (i386 MP). what prompted me to write > this email is that now my old thinkpad is affected > as well. > > looking at top right after boot shows that load was "normal" > > load averages: 1.14, 0.85, 0.43 > > but current load constantly being over 1.00, > the averages eventually rise as well.
Have you checked the output of 'top', perhaps with the -H option, and see what shows up as consuming CPU? Philip Guenther