If I select a feed from the list of feeds, and I have a network problem (or I pull out the ethernet cable), lifearea hogs the cpu.
Actually pulling the ethernet cable out can't reproduce this.
Hmmm, without more information I'm not sure how I can reproduce this bug.
Is this bug present in the 1.4.x branch? I've never been able to reproduce this.
I can't reproduce this. How did you try and reproduce this?
the usual turning off of network services, and also removing the eth cable. Marking as NOTABUG.