%idle stuck at 33%?

[mvh at ix.netcom.com]

In article <d3ulau$o0j$1 at 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.