HP DL380 / SLES 8 and cpu usage bug?

[cade.r...@gmail.com]

I have installed SLES 8 on a new HP DL380 G4 with 2 x 3.6GHz cpus and
with the machine just sitting there doing nothing it show ~75% cpu
usage on one of the virtual HT cpus (cpu 1 or cpu 3).

We have tried kernel 2.4.21-251-smp and 2.4.21-261-smp with the cciss
driver from HP and both kernels show this behavior. We are also seeing
it on several other machines all HP DL380's. This doesn't happen on a
Dell or other servers, just the DL380 G4.

We also don't see this issue with the base kernel (-138).

Does SLES 9 exhibit this same behavior? If not I maybe able to
convince the people here to use SLES 9 rather than 8 (which I wanted to
use anyway).

Thanks
Cade