Buggy network connection causes very low system responsiveness

[drago01]

2008/3/23 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at gmail.com>:

>  My question is:
>
>  Is this behaviour to be expected or is it a bug? I don't know exactly
>  how these things work, but I fail to imagine how can network problems
>  affect system responsiveness...

do you have a iwl3945/4965 wireless adapter?
can you attach your dmesg output when this happens?
Ar they any firmware errors?