My shared host has some issues

I noticed some issues while writing a blog entry:
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[emptysands@smithers:~] w
20:48:51 up 26 days, 19:59, 6 users, load average: 24.71, 20.75, 13.89
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
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… 30 minutes later …

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[emptysands@smithers:~] w
21:26:52 up 26 days, 20:37, 10 users, load average: 558.90, 537.18, 406.38
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
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before they finally get the reboot actioned. They use filers and the diskio was low:

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[emptysands@smithers:~] vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
3 217 766800 280684 4668 176616 0 1 8 2 9 9 54 8 35 2
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so it was maybe a rouge process. Not sure exact what the details are yet, I’m sure Dreamhost will post them in due course.