Maybe, but it happens on Solaris, too.
My feeling it that Netscape's event loop is crocked.
Every so often (especially if I tell it "open 40 pages right now" :-) it
spins out much as you describe, with the writes interspersed with SIGALRMs.
I think it's a symptom of a write to an O_NDELAY or O_NONBLOCK file
descriptor when it gets interrupted. In short, Netscape's unix event loop is
SIGALRM driven (ugh!) and it goes pathological fairly readily.
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