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I have an old Dell 1950 that I've rescued from Linux and tossed a copy of -STABLE on it, but am seeing a constant 0.5 load average. With the system completely idle, and kern.eventtimer.timer=LACPI, the load drops to the expected value of zero. This feels like it should be an FAQ, but short of noting that the load is non-zero, is there a programatic way to determine if the event timer is "broken?" The system was functioning just fine, but it always had a constant load even when doi...