Edit: I don't know if this really means much; but, I notice something today when I was monitoring the situation. When I went to the My Stats tab it seemed to hang up. While it was hanging I checked one of my rigs and the unknown work rejects we're happening. I had been running at below 0.5 percent stales up to that point (suddenly I was at 20 percent; although my miner calls them unknown work). The My Stats tab has to access the database to display. Interesting coincidence?
this seems right to me. perhaps the stats are autoupdating on the page and its causing conflict?