>it could account for the performance issues you were experiencing

This was not related. Today, we experienced a situation that we had the problem. The system started to be slow for about two minutes. Then, we started to get some errors. Then, the timeout of the recycler kicked in and the system started to be normal again. The coincidence is that the slowdown occured for last two minutes before the recycle was about to happen. And, the errors started in the last 6 seconds. So, closing the connection didn't change anything in regards to that situation. I recommended to decrease the timeout.