Comment 98 for bug 985661

Sudhir: I do not know anything about real increased power consumption. I only know about the reported load averages issue. However, I have observed many comments about real increased power consumption on other launchpad bug reports and various forums threads.

sds: You claim the kernel 3.2.0-29-46 is still reporting incorrect load averages. How do you know? For the example you gave, what is the real load average? If, as per your post #93, your expectation is that the reported load average be 0, I think that is incorrect for a desktop type ubuntu computer, as they have a lot more stuff running. Myself, I only use ubuntu server edition, and my background "idle" reported load average is 0, expect for the occasional cron related blib.