High load average after TP outage / 2.6.10

Hey All,

This seems odd, but for some reason the load average on my linode has risen by quite a bit since the TP outage. My load average was averaging 0.50 before the outage, and since the node came back, it's now averating 1.50. I realize this may not be due to the outage, but rather due to the fact that I was using 2.6.9 before the outage, and when the nodes restarted, my node started using 2.6.10.

Any idea why the load has climbed so much?

Thanks,

-Kevin