I have been running into this this past weekend as I was doing some testing. I have reverted back a few revisions and was still getting the issue. I was getting some extreme lag until I camped out. I reentered the zone without rebooting it (it didn't crash, just lagged), and was able to resummon my 54 bots with no problems.
One thing I noticed, when I got the lag, my server network utilization jumped up to 3-4% for a while, then jumped to 6-7% (100Mb) just before completely falling off (My client network utilization jumped up as well.). I have a 10 /2 connection, so 6-7% would just about be maxing my connection, since I am running my client within the same network.
After camping and entering zone again, I never went above 0.5% network utilization, even with the 54 bots running.
Something appears to be causing some massive network spikes that eventually caused either the zone to give up or something. I will try to test this out further as I get a chance.
This is on an old 2.0 Ghz, 1 GB desktop I threw together.
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