I just thought that I'd give some feedback since my last post.
# uptime
02:43:41 up 7 days, 9:29, 2 users, load average: 3.86, 4.37, 11.04
This is a good thing.
A question for the Proxmox folk if any happen to be watching - I noticed kernel.org is at 5.4.44 - but the latest proxmox kernel...