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

[Dale <dalek1967@bellsouth.net>]

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Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote:
> On Saturday 30 June 2007 08:29, Dale wrote:
>   
>> Any ideas?  Is it Seamonkey or something else?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>     
>
> You can check how much processor time takes kernel(top or htop) - if kernel 
> loads cpu too much then it is probably fs io.
>
>   

I have used top and it appears to be Seamonkey using the CPU so much. 
However, it is getting slower and slower as I download pics or get them
off my camera.  It now takes almost 15 seconds to save a picture on this
thing.  Right now there is about 9.4Gbs on there and about 40,000 files
and almost 900 directories all on a separate partition.  I'm getting
suspicious of the drive or that something is goofy with the kernel
settings.  I searched through /var/log/messages and I saw no errors
regarding that drive at all.  I do have that smart thing installed.  I
see where it changes temps but that is it.  No errors that I can find on
any drive.

This is the screen for the IDE drive section of my kernel:

>   │ │      <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL
> support                                               │ │
>   │ │      <*>   Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy
> support                   │ │
>   │ │      ---     Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on
> IDE drives        │ │
>   │ │      <*>     Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK
> support                                      │ │
>   │ │      [*]     Use multi-mode by
> default                                           │ │
>   │ │      <*>     Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM
> support                                     │ │
>   │ │      ---     IDE chipset
> support/bugfixes                                        │ │
>   │ │      <*>     generic/default IDE chipset
> support                                 │ │
>   │ │      [*]     PCI IDE chipset
> support                                             │ │
>   │ │      [*]       Sharing PCI IDE interrupts
> support                                │ │
>   │ │      <*>       Generic PCI IDE Chipset
> Support                                   │ │
>   │ │      <*>       RZ1000 chipset
> bugfix/support                                     │ │
>   │ │      [*]       Generic PCI bus-master DMA
> support                                │ │
>   │ │      [*]         Use PCI DMA by default when
> available                           │ │
>   │ │      <*>         AMD and nVidia IDE
> support                                      │ │

All the removed ones are disabled.  This rig has a Abit NF7 ver 2.0
mobo.  I am using this kernel:

> root@smoker / # uname -r
> 2.6.20-gentoo-r8
> root@smoker / #

It would appear that my settings and that DMA is working fine.  Here is
the timings from hdparm:

> root@smoker / # hdparm -Tt /dev/hdb
>
> /dev/hdb:
>  Timing cached reads:   936 MB in  2.00 seconds = 467.99 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  144 MB in  3.02 seconds =  47.70 MB/sec
> root@smoker / #

I have gkrellm installed and there doesn't seem to be any major drive
activity when I am doing this.  I'm not copying something or even
playing a CD while doing this so I wouldn't think it was "busy" doing
something else.

I'm open to ideas.  If you need more info, let me know.  May even try a
newer kernel too.  :/

Thanks for any help you all can provide.  Me stumped, which is normal
for me.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)


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