[wellylug] ubuntu load average

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my wife's laptop is running ubuntu 8.10. with top showing the system at 
close to 100% idle (>96%) i haven't seen the load averages drop below 1.0. 
i'd expect it to be closer to 0.0 when it's >95% idle. any ideas why the 
load averages seem skewed? thanks...


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 	 Assuming that a brute force attack is the most efficient,
 	 it would require 2^128 (10^38) encryptions to recover the
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 	 second an throw a billion of the them at the problem,
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