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| NAV (and other programs) have routines that regularly and automatically keep them updated. They typically do this via HTTP operations. Due to the sensitivity of the data and wanting to prevent session hijacks, they typically set up the update servers with SSL certificates that verify the update servers' identities to the clients. If the certificates have expired, the clients may sit there, aborting and retrying the connection over and over. This kind of fibrillation will eat your CPU (and memory, since each SSL negotiation attempt requires a non-trivial amount of resources to compute).
-tom
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