[Bug 50335] Load average never below 1.5 on dapper

[Mmike]

Public bug reported:

When I boot dapper (upgraded from breezy via apt-get dist-upgrade) on my
laptop (IBM ThinkPad R52, 1.7Ghz, 1GB, Ati X300 - pcix), load average is
always above or at 1.5. I turn on my laptop, boot dapper, log in, and
after 15 minutes i do 'uptime', and the load average is 1.5. When I
issue 'top', and sort by CPU usage (shift-f l) i see that most cpu time
went to Xorg, then to thinkpad-keys and then to multiload-applet-2.
Xorg, according to top, took only 15 seconds of CPU time. I'm not sure
how accurate top is on gathering those information.

When I boot dapper with 2.6.12 kernel, and replay what I mentioned
above, load average is 0.05 with top times almost the same as with
2.6.15 kernel.

I tried removing fglrx driver both from xorg.conf and putting it in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, the results are the same.

On home desktop PC (Intel D850MV mb, 1.7Ghz P4, 768 MB RAMBUS, ATA disk
driver) 2.6.15 works ok (also dapper upgraded from breezy), load
avereage is 0.12, and I have firefox and evolution runnnig.

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Load average never below 1.5 on dapper
https://launchpad.net/bugs/50335