Error with long running web spider

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <1187805496.980676.271830 at l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com>, Josh
Volz wrote:

> My problem is that I keep having an issue where the
> program appears to freeze.  Once this freezing happens the activity of
> the program drops to zero.  No exception is thrown or caught.  The
> program simply stops doing anything.  It even stops printing out its
> activity to stdout.

What happens afterwards? Does it continue running as though nothing had
happened? Throw an exception?

>From the output that appears beforehand, does it look like the freeze is
always happening in the same place?