> BUT, now Netscape froze again.  It's _not_ cleaning up the disk cache
> because there's no disk activity (according to systat vmstat).  It's
> not a network problem - Netscape doesn't even respond to the stop button.
> Netscape process is not using any CPU, it's sleeping in select(2).

I've seen freezes like that under WinNT at work when it's stuck
in a DNS query.

> Sigh.. Internet is broken ;-)  It was much better 10 years ago.. you
> couldn't do much more than ftp or irc, but so what? :-)

Agreed (at least for some things).  Usenet groups were also much
nicer back then (not much in the way of exceptions here...).

-allen