On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:48 PM, listmail <listmail at entertech.com> wrote: > I am running CentOS 5 on a dual-dual-core Intel machine, and I am seeing > a load average of between 0.35 and 0.50 while the machine is idle, i.e. > no processes appear to be running. > Download the livecd and boot using it. See if the load average still occurs. Check to see if you have any traffic occuring on the network from the system. [I had a box that was kernel trojaned that had a load average all the time when it was on the wire and did not when it didn't. The kernel trojan was looking for a particular bit of traffic that would open up its backdoor to.] -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"