After investigation I come to conclusion that arsbitcoins block/rate limit tcp connections and bitHopper tries to open new connections to the host until it runs out of free sockets. Disabling arsbitcoins helps, but I think there should be a better way for bitHopper to handle TCP timeouts/SYN-packets dropped by pools. I am not sure if http/1.1 keep-alive is implemented. But it could help to reduce stressing pools with huge load of new tcp connections.