On 7 Jan 2016, Akira TAGOH uttered the following: > I have no idea to get a better solution for that issue so far. > though it might be gone after ad9f588, we need to test this without it. With an NFSv3-mounted fonts dir, I still see stat("/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvBO18-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6450, ...}) = 0 stat("/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvBO18-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6160, ...}) = 0 stat("/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvBO18-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6521, ...}) = 0 stat("/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvBO18-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6099, ...}) = 0 stat("/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvBO18-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6487, ...}) = 0 stat("/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvBO18-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6053, ...}) = 0 stat("/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvBO18-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5912, ...}) = 0 stat("/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvBO18-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6177, ...}) = 0 stat("/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvBO18-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6432, ...}) = 0 stat("/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvBO18.pcf.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18492, ...}) = 0 [... ad nearly infinitum...] when starting programs with the latest fontconfig. (Only I don't normally, because I have a local patch that just removes all automatic cache updating entirely because of the consequences of that 2013 change. I'd rather do it by hand as needed -- i.e., almost never, since distro package installation does it for systemwide fonts and I don't have any other fonts to speak of -- than sit through nearly 30s of tiresome NFS thrashing every time I run anything...) -- NULL && (void) _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig