For what it's worth, I tried this on my home server and load average remains at 0.00 0.00 0.00 when the machine is doing nothing. That is perhaps understandable

For what it's worth, I tried this on my home server and load average remains at 0.00 0.00 0.00 when the machine is doing nothing. That is perhaps understandable, but before I enabled mitigations=off, it was always at some kind of a load, e.g. 0.07 or so.