[hiq]

How did you figure that this was the problem?

If it's easily reproducible, I guess checking `top` while downloading a large file might have given a clue, since you could have seen that you're running out of memory?

[archargelod]

I was trying to solve another problem related to mounting, ran `df -h` a couple times and noticed that:

  1) tmpfs is mounted to /tmp
  2) available size on /tmp is very low
  3) my free ram indicator in status bar is red

And then I tried downloading some files while looking at htop. It was immeduately obvious that it was the problem causing the hangs.