Bug#292858: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 Load average is vastly wrong

[Greg Kochanski <gpk@kochanski.org>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686
Version: 2.6.8-12
Severity: important


Load average is reported very high, but it ain't so.

$ cat /proc/loadavg
52.80 51.80 50.81 4/202 8431
$

The system is currently unloaded and quite responsive.
The real load average is clearly less than 2,
and from looking at top, the load average is probably
about 0.1 .


This is breaking my mail; exim4 is configured on my
system to refrain from delivering or accepting mail
when the load average is too high.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.77     tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-rel-2  tools for managing Linux kernel mo

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