Not sure if that's the absolute cause, but ShadowJack discovered that by resurrecting himself repeatedly at an ankh, his client would crash with a couple hundred corpses to load. I ran by to test and got this error: Word of warning until a resolution is found/implemented.
special bug reward reporting special shackles plz. I think that I'll never get the smell of miner grit and tears out of my hair from my time in jail.
I encountered this problem on EA shards about 8 years ago due to an excessive amount of ice fiend corpses on the ground. I also wasn't able to log back on my character until some of them had despawned.
Blaise posted seconds after confirming it for me. He's the kid in class with his hand raised before the teacher asks the question.