High server load on new server

Hello,

I've just installed CentOs 4.2 on a new Dual Opteron server and receive a constant server load of 1.00. "Top" shows the following :

Code: 
top - 21:49:23 up  6:05,  1 user,  load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
Tasks:  58 total,   1 running,  57 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 100.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   2056260k total,   252844k used,  1803416k free,    19420k buffers
Swap:  4096532k total,        0k used,  4096532k free,   171048k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    1 root      16   0  4744  516  432 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.70 init
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 migration/0
    3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 migration/1
    5 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
    6 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0
    7 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/1
    8 root       6 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
    9 root      15 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
   38 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/0
   39 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/1
   40 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd
   52 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
   53 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.07 pdflush
   56 root      13 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
   54 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd1
   55 root      25   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0
   57 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/1
  130 root      24   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
  195 root      21   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
  209 root      19   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
  215 root      15   0     0    0    0 D  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aar81xx_wd
  219 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 kjournald
 1109 root       6 -10  3600  492  400 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 udevd
 1249 root       6 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kauditd
 1288 root       6 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kmirrord
 1289 root       7 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kmir_mon
Any ideas which explains the high load?

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

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