Squatter causing load spike

[Gerard]

I am running squatter at 3am as a cron job on all of my servers. Over
the passed week I have one server where squatter spikes the load and
ends up locking up the server at around 8am every morning. Yeah, it
seems to take that long to run which may be an issue in itself. Has
anyone come accross this or have a suggestion on how to get squatter
to perform better?