@nanook @fluffy @SilverDeth @bajax

> The only thing a refresh is going to do is resend the same request

It sends one request, then that request triggers several others. One of the things is that the UI is reinitialized because Pleroma does most (nearly all) of its UI client-side, so if something made the UI crash, refreshing fixes it.

> so if not dropping packets, something else is intermittent

Yes, something else. As previously noted, the backend accepts data that sometimes crashes the frontend.

> It does suggest a resource exhaustion of some sort.

Nope. Sometimes. That is not the case here. FSE is mostly idling this time of night. Weather conditions have caused FSE to fall over a few times.

> Perhaps run dmesg after a failure

I appreciate you trying to help debug software that you have never run but I don't think you're going to be able to help much.
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