Bug#238797: xfree86-common: x + fontconfig

[Matthias Heinz <m.heinz@gmx.net>]

Am So, den 28.03.2004 schrieb Keith Packard um 18:48:
> Around 12 o'clock on Mar 28, Matthias Heinz wrote:
> 
> > It seems as if the whole fontsystem itself has a leak. I'll talk to the
> > fontconfig-devs, maybe they got a solution of it.
> 
> Where are you seeing a leak?

I can't tell you, because i don't know it. Everything i know is that
after a while something weird seems to happen to the cache and if it
doesn't get regenerated the startup of every single app for xfree gets
very slow.


> I hope not; if fontconfig can't manage to keep its cache files in 
> reasonable shape, it needs to be fixed.

I hope not, too.

I'll answer you every question you ask, but that's everything i noticed.
(and i got a solution for my problem... but i can't imagine that this
affects just me, but I helped a mate who got the same problem)

And just a defoma-app update fontconfig doesn't help for long. The
slowdown is still sensible but not that heavy as when doing nothing.

What does dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig do with the cache, except just
updating it?


-Matthias