We are occasionally getting a JVM freeze. It appears to happen when
both the application and the box it is running on are suddenly put
under load.
We are running JDK 1.3.1.08 on Solaris 8 with latest patches.

I'm writing an application which will load dynamically different plug-in
"applets".  The memory demands of these applets aren't known, since they
don't exist yet, but some are graphics-related and could gobble up lots of
memory.  It was suggested to me that I use a different ...