DoctorBill wrote:
So - is a possible of 4 GB of Cache Good ? Any suggestions of why Cursor freezes up. Usually when I am viewing graphics files or about to save them. Always happens when using SM....and Paint.net and GraphicsWorkShop Pro (Alchemy Mindworks). Usually Windows Explorer on, too.
Several thoughts, with indirect reference to other comments made in this thread...
Overall, your hardware specs are fine, and if you have broadband access, you don't really need much in the way of cache. Personally, I run my own at 10 MB, and I sometimes do Firefox configs as low as 5 MB. And as has been suggested, even setting to zero isn't necessarily a problem.
I'm inclined to believe that your problem is something that's not Seamonkey itself, but where Seamonkey issues are symptoms of something else.
As a common troubleshooting thing, I frequently suggest clearing cache and cookies. Remember that with broadband connections and Web 2.0, the browser is seen as much as a tool for running scripts, as it is for simply rendering HTML content. If there's stuff in the cache that's causing freezes, it could be a script that's confused, by trying to take content from the cache when it should be grabbing new stuff. I think that clearing the cache is more likely to address your problem than increasing the cache, and unless you're using dialup connections, I don't think you gain anything by making the cache larger than the Seamonkey defaults.
I'm assuming that you've already tried Safe Mode, to see what happens if you disable all your extensions, but I'll at least note here.
Another step to try would be trying an alternate user profile, where all the settings are default. If you get better handling there, then it is indicative that something in your current profile is amiss.
Some discussion elsewhere in the thread suggests issues with video handling. I have found that there are times when it can be appropriate to disable hardware acceleration for video -- not system-wide (and I not your stated discomfort with doing Windows registry tweaks), but disabling acceleration in Seamonkey. (To do that, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance / Content", uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available).
It's possible (although probably not likely) that there could be issues that relate to your Windows user profile. As with changing out a profile in Seamonkey, you could also try seeing if you get the same issues with a different user ID.
If that's not giving you the results you want, especially if you're seeing similar issues with freezing in other applications, then I think you're probably seeing system-related issues. The first thing that comes to mind is drivers. You didn't mention how long you've been having issues, but if it's within a week or two, a driver update is definitely a candidate. Take a look at your history for updates, and if there's anything that has updated there related to video, you may want to consider backing out that update, or even going to the Device Manager and deleting your video driver, and letting Windows redetect.
Even further, it's possible that the last Patch Tuesday update might have something that's interfering, and you might want to have Windows uninstall that one.
On additional review of discussion, I see that you're using Win 7, so that would appear to eliminate Patch Tuesday updates, but drivers could still be an issue. Win 7 itself isn't an issue. Besides differences in drivers and changes in UI, Win 7 isn't significantly different from either Vista or Win 10.
Given a machine of that apparent vintage, your symptoms might be indications of hardware issues, especially a failing video card.
One final thought: if you're running your storage at 18% available capacity, it's effectively full. Although an SSD may be a little more forgiving than a traditional hard drive, when you're that close, there's inadequate space for burst demand, and you will be seeing performance issues with your computer. I'm doubtful that that is causing your reported problems, but it's not impossible either. If you're running a 256 GB drive, then the expectation is that the drive is predominantly used for system and applications, and that you have minimal amounts of user data stored there. You can probably do up to about 50 GB of your own storage, but very little for digital media content (photos, music, videos) or archival storage of stuff you want to keep, but that you don't need to get to every day. For a 250 GB drive, you'll find much better overall performance if you get the amount of free space increased to at least 75 GB, and if you can get to 100 GB of free space, that's even better.
Freeing space might or might not affect your video issues, but doing so will help overall performance. In that context, expanding your cache might actually compound problems by increasing the demand on your storage.
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