What this tells me is that you're probably suffering from 'threadpool exhaustion', which is where your threadpool queue has so many items in it (from HTTP requests completing) that it takes a while to get through them all. Cancellation probably is blocking on some threadpool work item executing and it can't skip to the head of the queue.
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