2:54am up 221 day(s), 18:04, 33 users, load average: 28.16, 27.80, 27.75
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For the UNIX-illiterate, the last few numbers are basically the number of programs fighting over the processor on average - so there are ~28 programs all trying to use 100% of the processor on that poor machine.
No wonder it's been a slow slow bitch all day today. I should have looked at that earlier...