[CentOS] Load Average ~0.40 when idle

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:21:44 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote
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> Are you running X ... how many processes (on average are running).
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> Running X and logged in with applets and such, I have this:
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> top - 17:18:49 up  4:13,  3 users,  load average: 0.15, 0.27, 0.32
> Tasks: 153 total,   2 running, 149 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
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One is running X, the other is not. The one that is running X has the
same load average as the one that is not. A small number of processes
are running, but as I said they are not using any CPU time, according
to top. 
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