Please try 2.4.17-pre2 or later.
> > For how long does it "hang"? What exactly are you doing when it
> > occurs?
>
> its not that it hangs but it gets extremely laggy eg 2/3 seconds pause
> for keyboard input to appear on a console.
Your app got paged out, and the enormous read latencies in 2.4.16
caused it to remain there.
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