Re: Ping ... still messed up archive ...
Hi!
> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 15:00 +0200, Danai SAE-HAN wrote:
> > > Which FontForge version are you using? I use fontforge-0.0.20060430-1
> > > from <URL:http://kebil.ghost.lt/debian/pool/fontforge/> (backported to
> > I am using the same version. I have now killed xscreensaver
> > completely, and will see what it gives. Could be some junk in my
> > memory; I've killed a few other processes too now.
> Other processes like deamons that do nothing should cause any problems.
> At least as long as you have enough RAM. On the other hand, xsreensaver
> on a machine doing useful, noninteractive work can be counterproductive.
Well, xscreensaver just blanked the screen; no fancy 3D stuff going
on. I only have a humble PIII/733 with 256MB of physical RAM, but
the versions from 2005 didn't consume that much CPU power: I could
compile four Chinese fonts (two Big-5, two GB-2312) in *only* 4~5
hours; now it's about 24 hours. Poor computer.
> But still, if you see an increase in CPU/RAM usage, this might be
> related to libuninamelist, which is now used for the first time in
> Debian. The old fontforge packages did build this library, but the
> intended static linking didn't work. For CJK fonts I could imagine that
> using libuninameslist, which contains basically all the textual
> information from the Unicode charts (very handy!), can cost a lot of
> RAM. You could test this by building fontforge without libuninameslist
> support. Does that help?
That could indeed be the reason. I will disable it and recompile it
tonight. So Fontforge will make use of libuninameslist even if used
non-interactively (with scripts)? In my case Fontforge converts TTF
to Type1 .pfb fonts, so Unicode names is pretty much useless IMHO.
And there's no way to disable libuninameslist, at least according to
the manpage.
I'll recompile the package, and see what it gives. Eventually I will
contact the upstream author and describe my problems.
Thanks for your insight.
Danai SAE-HAN
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