Solving pauzes in 3D print when using OctoPrint

After I installed OctoPrint on my Raspberry Pi 2 model B running Raspbian, my prints regularly paused, resulting in bad prints with lots of blobs.

When googling around for this, a lot of solutions came down to replacing a defective USB cable with a new one.  However, in my case I was sure that the issue was not caused by a bad USB cable as printing directly from laptop using the same USB cable went fine.

The solution to this problem simply came down to adding the following line to the /boot/config.txt file of my Raspbian install:

max_usb_current=1

Please also read the following article providing some more information.