Re: [gentoo-user] Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson <beau@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> G'day,
>
> I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my new
> Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in use. Right after
> boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not seeing anything out of
> ordinary in dmesg ( asside from an non issue with legacy usb and sd and sr
> drivers in the kernel ).

Here's a thread that may or may not be related:

http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/High_Idle_Load_Average