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In article <d3ulau$o0j$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> you wrote:
> 
> This kind of thing can happen if your world is out of sync with your
> kernel.
> 
> Kris
> 

The world and kernel are in sync - I used a world/kernel build to
generate the load (several times with the same source).  I don't see
the same behavior on a Dell desktop machine with 2 processors,
hyperthreading disabled, so it must be something specific to the Dell
2650.

- Mike H.