diff --git a/src/stream.c b/src/stream.c
index 376a3aebb..1d2e6ce02 100644
--- a/src/stream.c
+++ b/src/stream.c
@@ -1751,7 +1751,6 @@ struct task *process_stream(struct task *t, void *context, unsigned short state)
 	struct channel *req, *res;
 	struct stream_interface *si_f, *si_b;
 	unsigned int rate;
-	uint64_t cpu_time_before, cpu_time_after;
 
 	activity[tid].stream++;
 
@@ -1765,11 +1764,6 @@ struct task *process_stream(struct task *t, void *context, unsigned short state)
 	si_sync_recv(si_f);
 	si_sync_recv(si_b);
 
-	/* measure only the analysers' time */
-	cpu_time_before = 0;
-	if (task_profiling_mask & tid_bit)
-		cpu_time_before = now_cpu_time();
-
 redo:
 	rate = update_freq_ctr(&s->call_rate, 1);
 	if (rate >= 100000 && s->call_rate.prev_ctr) { // make sure to wait at least a full second
@@ -2644,20 +2638,6 @@ redo:
 
 		s->pending_events &= ~(TASK_WOKEN_TIMER | TASK_WOKEN_RES);
 		stream_release_buffers(s);
-		/* We may have free'd some space in buffers, or have more to send/recv, try again */
-
-		if (cpu_time_before) {
-			cpu_time_after = now_cpu_time();
-			cpu_time_after -= cpu_time_before;
-			if (cpu_time_after >= 100000000U) {
-				/* more than 1 ms CPU time spent in analysers is already absolutely
-				 * insane, but on tiny machines where performance doesn't matter it
-				 * may happen when using tons of regex, so let's fix the threshold
-				 * to 100ms which must never ever be hit.
-				 */
-				stream_dump_and_crash(&s->obj_type, -(cpu_time_after / 1000));
-			}
-		}
 		return t; /* nothing more to do */
 	}
 
@@ -2705,19 +2685,6 @@ redo:
 	/* update time stats for this stream */
 	stream_update_time_stats(s);
 
-	if (cpu_time_before) {
-		cpu_time_after = now_cpu_time();
-		cpu_time_after -= cpu_time_before;
-		if (cpu_time_after >= 100000000U) {
-			/* more than 1 ms CPU time spent in analysers is already absolutely
-			 * insane, but on tiny machines where performance doesn't matter it
-			 * may happen when using tons of regex, so let's fix the threshold
-			 * to 100ms which must never ever be hit.
-			 */
-			stream_dump_and_crash(&s->obj_type, -(cpu_time_after / 1000));
-		}
-	}
-
 	/* the task MUST not be in the run queue anymore */
 	stream_free(s);
 	task_destroy(t);
@@ -2932,13 +2899,11 @@ void stream_dump(struct buffer *buf, const struct stream *s, const char *pfx, ch
 }
 
 /* dumps an error message for type <type> at ptr <ptr> related to stream <s>,
- * having reached loop rate <rate>, then aborts hoping to retrieve a core. If
- * <rate> is negative instead it reports a duration in microseconds.
+ * having reached loop rate <rate>, then aborts hoping to retrieve a core.
  */
 void stream_dump_and_crash(enum obj_type *obj, int rate)
 {
 	const struct stream *s;
-	const char *fmt;
 	char *msg = NULL;
 	const void *ptr;
 
@@ -2953,22 +2918,12 @@ void stream_dump_and_crash(enum obj_type *obj, int rate)
 			return;
 	}
 
-	if (rate < 0) {
-		fmt = "A bogus %s [%p] halted the whole thread for at least %d microseconds "
-		      "resulting in a complete freeze of all other tasks, aborting now! Please "
-		      "report this error to developers "
-		      "[%s]\n";
-		rate = -rate;
-	}
-	else {
-		fmt = "A bogus %s [%p] is spinning at %d calls per second and refuses to die, "
-		      "aborting now! Please report this error to developers "
-		      "[%s]\n";
-	}
-
 	chunk_reset(&trash);
 	stream_dump(&trash, s, "", ' ');
-	memprintf(&msg, fmt,
+	memprintf(&msg,
+	          "A bogus %s [%p] is spinning at %d calls per second and refuses to die, "
+	          "aborting now! Please report this error to developers "
+	          "[%s]\n",
 	          obj_type_name(obj), ptr, rate, trash.area);
 
 	ha_alert("%s", msg);