Random freezes on WinME

[Pierre A. Humblet]

I would be interested to have Nicholas experience about this.
For several weeks (don't recall when it started), I have gotten 
random freezes while making from cvs. 

ps reveals:

  33984103       1 33984103 4260983193  con  510 21:40:51 /c/PROGRAM
FILES/CYGWIN/BIN/RXVT
  84280863 33984103 84280863 4210684593    0  510 21:40:52 /c/PROGRAM
FILES/CYGWIN/BIN/BASH
  36584127 84280863 36584127 4210563805    0  510 21:57:34 /c/PROGRAM
FILES/CYGWIN/BIN/MAKE
  84403975 36584127 36584127 4210563321    0  510 21:58:05 /c/PROGRAM
FILES/CYGWIN/BIN/SH
  85036611 84403975 36584127 4209930685    0  510 21:58:05 /c/PROGRAM
FILES/CYGWIN/BIN/SH
  84943659 85036611 36584127 4210023637    0  510 21:58:05 <defunct>

Is it just me, or is it ME?
Any advice on debugging this? 

Pierre