A word to the wise, trust documentation. The help for my add-on said not to leave it on for extended periods of time, and that it’s really only meant for short periods of debugging traffic. Well, I read that and chose to ignore it, thinking of course that I knew better.

Well, it’s turned off now, and things are much snappier than they were.

I still don’t know what it was doing, because I never did get any output from the darn thing. Apparently, it was just spinning its cycles, spewing its data into the /dev/null’s of the world.