MozUser wrote:
Windows 10 Home Laptop all updates
Laptop up for hours.
Running Seamonkey (latest) from PC startup used for newsgroups ONLY.
Seamonkey super sluggish.
I have two news sources with the same groups and both sources are just
as sluggish.
Sluggish:
click on a newsgroup and it takes a very long time to respond.
whirling cursor just whirls
click on a header and the same thing with a blank posting area (no
post test seen).
Restart Seamonkey and get the same result.
Process Explorer show 45% IDLE
SEamonkey 20%
MsMpEng 20%
All others in fractions%
So a lot of scanning is going on probably on Seamonkey because after
many many minutes Seamonkey starts responding and MsMpEng goes to
fractional%
What is going on ?
What is Seamonkey doing and how can I stop it ?
What is Win10 doing and how do I stop it?
There's a lot of possible bottlenecks -- some may be related directly to
Seamonkey, some related to your operating system, some may be related to
your hardware, and some could have multiple sources working against each
other simultaneously.
Some suggestions:
1) There could be issues with your user profile, particularly
extensions. Try restarting Seamonkey in Safe Mode, and see what
happens. If you get better performance, then you may want to consider
permanent removal of certain extensions, or perhaps re-install of
extensions.
BTW, don't bother with trying to uninstall/reinstall Seamonkey, unless
you have positive reason to believe that there is likely corruption to
either program binaries or the Windows registry. In Win 7 and later,
those kinds of issues are very unusual.
2) Is your computer slow when Seamonkey is closed, and you're
interacting with other applications? If you live in Seamonkey, it's
easy to blame Seamonkey for slowness, when it may be just the symptom of
other things that are causing performance issues.
There's a lot of things that could be happening, such as background AV
scanning, other applications that are updating, etc. Another
possibility is memory usage, especially if you have lots of things that
auto-start when you log into Windows. It's common for installed software
to self-optimize, by setting itself to auto-start, and developers tend
to focus on optimizing their stuff, without regard to user preferences
(unless you remember to opt out). Two things that consume a *lot* of
resources are Adobe Reader and LibreOffice. If you make constant use of
either of those, it may make sense to auto-start, and you get faster
performance. But if you use only occasionally, there's no reason to
have those loaded into memory, especially if doing so inhibits other use
of the computer.
Adobe notoriously "fat", and includes a lot of low-priority plugins. I
don't remember if current versions are set to auto-start, as a default.
In any case, other PDF readers, (FoxIt, Pdf-Xchange, SumatraPDF) are all
considerably less demanding on system resources. And there's lots of
small stuff that may be self-loading, as well. It's worth running
MSConfig (or perhaps CCleaner) to see what's auto-starting, and pare
that down as much as possible.
If you have an AV scanner that's running, you may want to tweak settings
so that it's not trying to do a full system scan at a time that you're
normally trying to get work done. If you normally shut your system down
at night, then there's a lot of processes that may be set to run
overnight, and if they don't run at the scheduled time, then they'll try
to get caught up at the first opportunity later. Sometimes, a machine
can be exceptionally busy for the first 10 or 15 minutes after being
started (or revived out of sleep or hibernate modes).
3) Hardware can be a problem, too. The most common area of question is
RAM -- if you're running a machine with 4 GB of RAM, and you typically
use more than that, then you're going to be doing a lot of memory
swapping to hard disk, and you'll notice that in performance.
I also find slowness issues with hard drives:
- Check your disk usage. If your hard drive is more than 50% capacity,
it will be slower than if you have less. If you're at 2/3 capacity,
you'll notice performance issues. If the disk is at 3/4 capacity, it's
effectively "full", and you'll see significant performance issues. The
issue is a physical limitation with hard drives -- the more data that is
stored, the more work that has to be done to locate specific data (or
empty blocks). Defragging may help a little bit, but probably not a
lot. If you're in the habit of dumping the contents of your camera's SD
card onto your hard drive, or if you have a big music collection, you
need to get that stuff moved to other media. It's not that that stuff
isn't important, but your primary hard drive is not a good place to do
long-term archival storage, for stuff that you don't need every day. If
the drive is full, then there's no reason to let your archives interfere
with you daily usage.
Also, with disk storage, make sure you run cleanups of your disk --
again CCleaner is a good tool. You don't need to be taking multiple GB
of space from temp files, downloaded software, browser cache, etc.
Although having a large browser cache was useful a couple of decades
ago, it really isn't necessary now. On my own installations, I normally
lower the size of the browser cache to only a fraction of the default size.
- Integrity of the hard drive -- I've seen several machines that are
chronically slow, even after I've done significant performance tuning.
In each of those cases, it turns out that the hard drive was in the
process of failing, and checking the drives' SMART status revealed
relocated sectors. In each case, after I replaced the hard drive,
performance issues vanished.
Although it's not impossible that your problems are Seamonkey-specific
(especially something with your user profile), I'm inclined to believe
that Seamonkey is probably only the symptom of other problems, rather
than the cause. Get the other problems fixed, and Seamonkey will likely
be happy.
Good luck.
Smith
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