On Friday 06 Jun 2014 06:59:18 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> I am using uvesafb for the console, so I get 64x160 screens.

Why don't you use KMS?  I am asking in the off-chance that uvesa is not 
working happily with your video card and the native kernel drive performs 
better.

This of course would not explain the high number of tasks; are these only 
evident under systemd?

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Regards,
Mick