Patrick Lam <plam@xxxxxxx> ????????: > Mike FABIAN wrote: >> Tested with a CVS snapshot of the fontconfig 2.4 branch from >> yesterday. >> >> I noticed that if the global fonts.cache-2 files are out of date, >> applications using fontconfig take a long time to start. >> >> I understand that this happens once because the user cache file >> ~/.fonts.cache-2 has to be generated. But if this file has been >> generated, subsequently called applications should start fast. > > I've experienced problems like this before but I can't reliably > reproduce it on my system right now. Can you see if it happens if you > erase your ~/.fonts.cache-2 and start again from scratch? After erasing ~/.fonts.cache-2, the problem was gone: mfabian@magellan:~$ time fc-list "Luxi Sans" ; ls -l --time-style=full-iso .fonts.cache-2 Luxi Sans:style=Bold Luxi Sans:style=Regular Luxi Sans:style=Oblique Luxi Sans:style=Bold Oblique real 2m17.041s user 0m50.395s sys 0m2.880s -rw------- 1 mfabian suse 4555986 2005-10-20 23:43:55.000000000 +0200 .fonts.cache-2 mfabian@magellan:~$ time fc-list "Luxi Sans" ; ls -l --time-style=full-iso .fonts.cache-2 Luxi Sans:style=Bold Luxi Sans:style=Regular Luxi Sans:style=Oblique Luxi Sans:style=Bold Oblique real 0m4.089s user 0m1.096s sys 0m0.168s -rw------- 1 mfabian suse 4555986 2005-10-20 23:43:55.000000000 +0200 .fonts.cache-2 mfabian@magellan:~$ time fc-list "Luxi Sans" ; ls -l --time-style=full-iso .fonts.cache-2 Luxi Sans:style=Bold Luxi Sans:style=Regular Luxi Sans:style=Oblique Luxi Sans:style=Bold Oblique real 0m1.519s user 0m1.108s sys 0m0.128s -rw------- 1 mfabian suse 4555986 2005-10-20 23:43:55.000000000 +0200 .fonts.cache-2 mfabian@magellan:~$ time fc-list "Luxi Sans" ; ls -l --time-style=full-iso .fonts.cache-2 Luxi Sans:style=Bold Luxi Sans:style=Regular Luxi Sans:style=Oblique Luxi Sans:style=Bold Oblique real 0m1.284s user 0m1.140s sys 0m0.108s -rw------- 1 mfabian suse 4555986 2005-10-20 23:43:55.000000000 +0200 .fonts.cache-2 mfabian@magellan:~$ This is very strange, certainly there is a bug but it appears to be not easy to reproduce. -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian ?????????????
