Patrick Lam wrote: > This patch: > > http://plam.csail.mit.edu/~plam/tmp/fontconfig-mmap-050609.diff I've also uploaded http://plam.csail.mit.edu/~plam/tmp/fontconfig-mmap-050609-efficient.diff which is much more efficient at saving the mmap file to disk, in that fc-mmap takes much less peak memory now. I believe that it consumes the same order of magnitude of memory as fontconfig does in normal operation. pat