Nutch freezing - deflateBytes

["Insurance Squared Inc." <gc...@insurancesquared.com>]

Our nutch installation (version .7, running on Mandrake linux) continues 
to freeze sporadically during fetching.  Our developer has it pinned 
down to the deflateBytes library. 

"it looped in the native method called deflateBytes for very long time. 
Some times, it took several hours."

That's all we've got so far.  Has anyone run into a problem with this 
library before, or know of a quick way around the issue?

Thanks.