The cluster we are on at Dreamhost has lately had a few issues
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As of Fri Mar 9 05:00:01 2012 GMT, server was up 172 days, 18:56. Load average last minute was 1.42, last five minutes 2.05, last fifteen minutes 2.22.
Load averages over 20 will make everything here very sluggish.