clean tomcat6 install causes load to go up

[Wart Fransen]

Binary package hint: tomcat6

to reproduce:

start with clean ubuntu ec2 instance from the latest official release.

ami-2d4aa444

then
install tomcat via tasksel --section server

when install is finished, run top

load goes to ± 1

deinstall load goes back to ± 0

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04

tomcat6:
  Installed: 6.0.24-2ubuntu1.2
  Candidate: 6.0.24-2ubuntu1.2
  Version table:
 *** 6.0.24-2ubuntu1.2 0
        500 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     6.0.24-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Ec2AMI: ami-2d4aa444
Ec2AMIManifest: ubuntu-images-us/ubuntu-lucid-10.04-i386-server-20100427.1.manifest.xml
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1d
Ec2InstanceType: m1.small
Ec2Kernel: aki-754aa41c
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
Package: tomcat6 6.0.24-2ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProblemType: Bug
ProcEnviron:
  SHELL=/bin/bash
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.32-305.9-ec2 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
SourcePackage: tomcat6
Tags: lucid ec2-images
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-305-ec2 i686

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Which process is eating up all the cpu?