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: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # uname -r > 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # It would appear that my settings and that DMA is working fine. Here is the timings from hdparm: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # 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 :-) :-)
