Comment 99 for bug 524281

Can anyone confirm if this is the cause of the high load on EC2?

I've 2 instances which have been "upgraded" to 10.04 LTS and both sit around 1.0 and peak at 4 or 5. When the same software is run on the same instance type but under 8.04 LTS the load rarely goes above 0.5.

That problem has been open for nearly 3 months at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ec2/+bug/574910 so I'm hoping there's some activity here that will at least ease the situation if not resolve it all together.