[Apologies for private mail to so many people.] On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 10:04:19AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:05:00PM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote: > > > I am glad that you somehow found out "-deferglyphs 16". :-) This option > > "defers" the loading of 16-bit glyphs e.g. large CJK and Unicode fonts. > > Otherwise, X would try to load the _entire_ font (with 14000+ glyphs) > > into the memory all at once. This soon crashes the X font server, > > and since X can't talk to the font server any more, it just freezes whenever > > a font is requested. At this state, X would use up all the CPU resources, > > probably trying desperately to talk to a non-existent font server. :-) > > If I understand your description correctly this option is never harmful but > very useful for some setups. Don't you think that the Debian setup should > pass this option per default? In that case please ask Branden if he can > do that (or file a bug, severity wishlist, on xserver-common). -deferglyph 16 has been in place in the default /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file for quite a while. I am adding "deferglyphs = 16" to the default xfs config file for 3.3.6-10. -- G. Branden Robinson | Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux | road from capitalism to capitalism. branden@debian.org | -- Russian saying http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- | This message was re-posted from debian-chinese@lists.debian.org | and converted from big5 to gb2312 by an automatic gateway.
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