In message <200302250301.h1P31GU04302@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writes
:
>Anyway, I have experimented with this, and it doesn't seem to help.  The
>problem appears to mostly show up when more than one program is running in a
>VM.  *sigh*.

And it appears to go away with JRE 1.4.1_02, recently made available on
Sun's site.  I did a send-pr with patches for the package.  With 1.4.1_01,
NetBeans would hang VERY reliably trying to build or run apps; now it seems
to work quite reliably.

-s