[gentoo-user] Seamonkey and saving images taking so long

[Dale]

Hi,

I have a question about this one.  I noticed a good while back that when
I try to save a image with Seamonkey, it takes a lot longer than it used
too.  I save them this way, right click on the image then click save
image as and in the pop up I click save.  After hitting the save button,
it takes several seconds, 5 or so, to save a image to disk.  I always
make sure the image is completely loaded since I am on dial-up.  It used
to do this really fast and I'm not sure what could be causing this.  It
also makes my CPU go to about 80% or so. 

This is some info about my system.  AMD 2500+ with 1Gb of ram.  I have a
two IDE UDMA drives on this rig.  More info:

> root@smoker / # hdparm -i /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>
>  Model=Maxtor 6Y080P0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y22J9KXE
>  Config={ Fixed }
>  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
>  BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7936kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
>  CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=160086528
>  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
>  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
>  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
>  AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
>  Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0:
> ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7
>
>  * signifies the current active mode
>
> root@smoker / #

> root@smoker / # hdparm -i /dev/hdb
>
> /dev/hdb:
>
>  Model=WDC WD800BB-00DKA0, FwRev=77.07W77, SerialNo=WD-WCAHL2497094
>  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs
> FmtGapReq }
>  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=74
>  BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
>  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488
>  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
>  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
>  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
>  AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
>  Drive conforms to: Unspecified:  ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6
>
>  * signifies the current active mode
>
> root@smoker / #

> root@smoker / # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing cached reads:   834 MB in  2.00 seconds = 416.40 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  156 MB in  3.02 seconds =  51.69 MB/sec
> root@smoker / #

> root@smoker / # hdparm -tT /dev/hdb
>
> /dev/hdb:
>  Timing cached reads:   814 MB in  2.00 seconds = 406.93 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  126 MB in  3.03 seconds =  41.55 MB/sec
> root@smoker / #

> root@smoker / # equery list seamonkey
> [ Searching for package 'seamonkey' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
> [I--] [  ] www-client/seamonkey-1.1.2 (0)
> root@smoker / #

Open to ideas because this is annoying as heck.  Images size doesn't
seem to matter either.  Big or large, it takes longer.

Thanks much.

Dale

:-)  :-)