Buggy network connection causes very low system responsiveness

[Andrew Farris]

Martin Sourada wrote:
> Sure, as soon as I'll be able to reproduce the issue (the dead state is
> reached really randomly and sometimes it works for a really long time
> and sometimes it happens quite often)...

You might want to make sure no HTTP_PROXY is getting set in your environment 
when that happens as well.  It would cause any network request to get sent first 
to the address of the proxy which would need to time out before your app responds.

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