Getting connection reset messages on git operations

[Jim Meyering]

Diego Novillo wrote:
> $ git svn info
> Path: .
> URL: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk
> Repository Root: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc
> Repository UUID: 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
> Revision: 184830
> Node Kind: directory
> Schedule: normal
> Last Changed Author: dnovillo
> Last Changed Rev: 184830
> Last Changed Date: 2012-03-02 16:30:11 -0500 (Fri, 02 Mar 2012)
>
> $ git pull
> fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer
>
> I'm not getting the same errors doing SVN operations.

Perhaps related: today I noticed something odd:
updating an old binutils clone, it took something like 15 minutes.

That was an hour or two ago.