Comment 9 for bug 194832

I experiance the same problem as descibed above on an AMD 3200
MB asus K8VSE with 1GB ram. 7.10
I have tested this with the onboard(88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller) and an added (3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]).
Both give the same problem.
As soon as an other ubuntu machine ( one of three others 2*7.4 +1*7.10 ) starts up in the network I have the problem resulting in a high load. The other machines are old PIII/ PIV (7.4) and dual core laptop(7.10) having less problems with this.
An existing XP machine do not show any sign of this.

Load on amd 3200 with no other machine in the network
load average: 0.22, 0.19, 0.43
Load on amd 3200 with one machine (PIII) started up in the network
load average: 0.93, 0.64, 0.50
The load can be >2 resulting in interupting all the work on AMD. After unplugging the PIII from the network the load drops direct.