This seems to fix a problem I am having (connection reset on every invocation of slime-load-system) with slime-asdf:
-Adam
cvs diff: Diffing . cvs diff: Diffing contrib Index: contrib/slime-asdf.el =================================================================== RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/contrib/slime-asdf.el,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -r1.4 slime-asdf.el 112a113,114
(slime-require :swank-asdf)