The cluster we are on at Dreamhost has lately had a few issues
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As of Sat Jul 31 10:00:00 2010 GMT, server was up 81 days, 17:15. Load average last minute was 1.10, last five minutes 1.29, last fifteen minutes 1.34.
Load averages over 20 will make everything here very sluggish.