"West bug" or "North bug" causes
On the live servers, one potential cause of this bug manifesting is when you're in a certain zone with a particular memory usage setting, on a particular hardware configuration that happens to be predisposed to it, and it will spontaneously begin. For me (and I know others), Field of Scale was one such zone that always stood out as causing this bug to rear its ugly head. Other people have gotten the bug in other places...I guess murphy's law sought out their individual weaknesses. :P
In a patch a couple months back, they claimed to have fixed a memory leak and tweaked the way memory usage works, and propitiously enough, I haven't encountered the bug since then.
I know it's not possible to select different memory usage settings with the titanium client, but I figured I might as well throw this out there, for informational purposes. A reboot has always fixed the north bug for me in the past, and it always seemed to be localized to particular zones, so at a minimum, I don't think you have to worry about the bug infecting too many of your other zones.
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