[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#639539: Load average bug

[Rob Donovan]

I can confirm that I'm seeing this bug too after an upgrade to the 
standard Debian Squeeze distribution from Lenny (new kernel is 
2.6.32-5-amd64).

It shows up in top and, of course, xload.

In my case the load average comes in at about 0.3 for a nice-19 job 
eating 784% of my 8-cpu processor (max being 800%).
Under Lenny xload displayed similar jobs as (almost) 8 bars.  Now it's 
much less than 1 bar.

xload is therefore effectively broken.

Rob Donovan