MLAT not synchronised but connected?

I have something similar here at least every 30 minutes all day I’ve been getting…

[2020-07-17 16:18 BST] reconnecting to beast-splitter
[2020-07-17 16:18 BST] faup1090 exited normally
[2020-07-17 16:18 BST] lost connection to beast-splitter via faup1090

The traffic definitely seems up today here, wonder if we are hitting some sort of load balance / server overload situation? Another thread reported an issue with RED MLAT indicator this morning.

I’ve had 11 occurrences of…
Server status: synchronized with NNN nearby receivers
…since 14:20, where NNN for me is in the range 750 to 950 (the latter more typical)

See also:

This may or may not be significant, but certainly a coincidence, my MLAT dropped to zero at the moment I hit a peak message rate (2066)…

dump1090-localhost-local_rate-8h