Itunes 11.3 on win 8.1 hangs while updating podcasts

While updating my podcasts, itunes is not accepting any input for up to several minutes in a row. Actual start of the update is delayed for this time.I am using itunes 11.3 on win 8.1. The win task manager indicates, itunes is consuming CPU time, however it is also in "inactive" status.
Looks to me, it is "active waiting" for something.
My internet connection is 50MBit/s, other programs accessing the internet are working just fine (so I do not assume any DNS resolver issue or somthing like that). Downloads are in the expected speed range.
Any advice?

That seems to help only partially - I eliminated (that is actually removed all dead Feeds from my library. However there still is a significant period, where iTunes is not responding to any Input.
My guts Feeling is - the period has shrunken, however I have no measurements on that.
All in all - Situation is not satisfying, is it?
Peter

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