Very high response times at random during hand-offs

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Debug information

• Agents SDK version: (e.g. v0.0.3) 0.0.14
• Python version (e.g. Python 3.10) 3.13.2

We are using OpenAI Agents SDK on a flow with around 10 agents or so. In some instances, the waiting times on simple tasks (a hand-off, for example) take a significant amount of time, as in 60+ seconds. We are unsure what causes this, as the hand-off agent does not have any of the complexity of the specialized ones. It can only hand things off. Is there something we can take a deeper look into in order to uncover what causes these very high waiting times? They are at random, regardless of how direct or vague the user is, and regardless of the length of the conversation history.

We are using GPT-4.1, though the same problem has been encountered with the mini version.