Excessive loadavg

Seen on a client’s server:

top - 13:28:19 up XXX, XXXX,  1 user,  load average: 66.63, 77.33, 73.74
Tasks: 200 total,   1 running, 198 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3%us,  1.3%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id, 98.3%wa,  0.1%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1029664k total,  1021956k used,     7708k free,     3236k buffers
Swap:  1951888k total,  1725364k used,   226524k free,    23852k cached

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