Hi, I had this problem, too, and as I have xsysinfo running, I could figure out that my freezing was due to a completely used up memory (RAM and swap were full). This was caused by Netscape 4.x. It is easy to reproduce this mem filling by opening the history with Alt+H once. After this, every new page you load in Netscape will remain in memory forever, and the memory will start to fill quickly. My system froze on a 2.2.14 kernel. I don't know if this problem of freezing when memory is completely used up was fixed later on (I've so much memory now that it never fills ;-)), but you might want to let xsysinfo run and keep an eye on the memory bar when using netscape. Best regards, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner mailto:fst@informatik.uni-kiel.de Lehrstuhl f. Programmiersprachen mailto:fsteiner@web.de CAU Kiel, Olshausenstraße 40 Phone: +49 431 880-7265, Fax: -7613 D-24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst/