[gentoo-user] Questions about java, Seamonkey and random hangs.

[Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>]

Hi Folks,

I have had a problem for a while that I can not figure out.  I visit the
radar site for the weather and it uses java.  Here is a link:

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=GWX&product=NCR&overlay=11111111&loop=yes

Keep in mind I am on dial-up here.  So things take a while to download. 
Here is what it does though.  When I go to that link, I have it
bookmarked, it will start to load and then Seamonkey will not respond or
hangs up until it has loaded all the images.  The CPU load goes to close
to 100% between Seamonkey and java.  Once everything is loaded, it then
responds.  When I saw it doesn't respond, if I switch desktops then come
back, it doesn't even redraw the screen.  All I get is the borders or
Seamonkey.

Also, on there is a "Autoupdate" button that will automatically update
the images as the radar is updated.  If I turn that on, it will update a
few times then it will stop working and the part that is java is blank. 

Here is the usage while it is loading up the images:

> 29729 dale      25   0  213m  74m  24m R 78.2  7.4   4:56.09 seamonkey-bin
> 27407 root      15   0 91260  54m 8392 S  9.7  5.4  11:48.22 X
>  3806 dale      15   0  246m  64m  16m S  8.0  6.4   0:28.47 java_vm

Sometimes java is using more than Seamonkey so it varies a little.  Here
is what I have installed as reported by equery:

> root@smoker / # equery list java
> [ Searching for package 'java' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
> [I--] [  ] dev-java/java-config-1.3.7 (0)
> [I--] [  ] dev-java/java-config-2.0.31-r5 (2)
> [I--] [  ] dev-java/java-config-wrapper-0.12-r1 (0)
> [I--] [  ] dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.2 (1.4.2)
> [I--] [  ] dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.5.0-r1 (1.5.0)
> [I--] [ ~] dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0-r1 (1.6.0)
> [I--] [  ] dev-java/javacup-0.10k-r1 (0)
> [I--] [  ] dev-java/javatoolkit-0.2.0-r1 (0)
> [I--] [  ] dev-java/libreadline-java-0.8.0-r2 (0)
> [I--] [  ] dev-java/xjavac-20041208-r4 (1)
> root@smoker / #        

and

> root@smoker / # equery list seamonkey
> [ Searching for package 'seamonkey' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
> [I--] [  ] www-client/seamonkey-1.1.1 (0)
> root@smoker / #   

Can someone visit that link and see if it does the same for you?  If it
works for you, can you post what you are using as far as a browser and
for java?  Has anybody seen or heard of anything like this before? 
About my system, I have a AMD 2500+ CPU and 1Gb of ram. 

I have tried unmerging and only having one version of java installed but
it does the same regardless of what version I have.  I would assume it
is not because there is more than one version of java installed.

What ya think?  Thanks in advance for help and info.  If you need more
info, let me know.

Dale

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