printing slows system to a crawl

Hi - 

Been searching around (this list, HP's site, Usenet) and am not getting
anywhere.  My setup:

HP OfficeJet 6110 MFP (USB)
cups-1.1.20-r1
hpoj-0.91-r3
hpijs-1.5
kernel 2.6
(gentoo; devfsd-1.3.25-r6)
AMD 1.6GHz, 768M RAM, 1G swap

Whether I'm printing or scanning my system grinds to a halt
(practically) during the entire time until the printed document is spit
out - something is definitely out of whack.  Other than that everything
works fine.  I also use jpilot to sync my PDA via USB and have no
noticeable problems so don't necessarily know if this is a USB-related
problem.  I use ~/.toprc to set top to a frequent update and AFAICT I
don't see anything hogging CUP/MEM.

I don't know what other info to provide but can someone tell me if
there's some cfg I'm missing?  Or if something (known) is broken?  I
normally load all USB/print/scan as modules but tried compiling into
kernel with no improvement.

Mike
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