See summary. loadavg just displays 0,00 0,00 0,00. It works as expected with the head of 1.8.2.
conky -V
conky 2.0.0_pre compiled Mon Jan 10 20:52:09 CET 2011 for Linux 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 i686
Compiled in features:
System config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf
Package library path: /usr/lib/conky
General:
* math
* portmon
* Curl
* RSS
* Weather (METAR)
* Weather (XOAP)
* nvidia
* builtin default configuration
* old configuration syntax
* Imlib2
* iostats
* ncurses
* Internationalization support
Lua bindings:
* Cairo
* Imlib2
X11:
* Xdamage extension
* XDBE (double buffer extension)
* Xft
* ARGB visual
* Own window
Music detection:
* Audacious
* XMMS2
Default values:
* Netdevice: eth0
* Local configfile: $HOME/.conkyrc
* Localedir: /usr/share/locale
* Maximum netdevices: 16
* Maximum text size: 16384
* Size text buffer: 256
Looks like this is an internationalization problem as it only happens with -DBUILD_I18N=ON. In this case conky expects float variables with commas instead of periods as decimal mark.
Fixed in patch 2aafb591ee28d00a881fa104b698c26d19f32f59