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Date:      10 Apr 2003 03:18:07 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Dimitry Andric <dim@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fontconfig-2.1.92 considered harmful
Message-ID:  <1049959087.402.117.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <14232717825.20030409211916@xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 15:19, Dimitry Andric wrote:
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> On 2003-04-09 at 10:00:37 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> > How much memory do you have on this machine (RAM + swap)?  Are you
> > imposing any hard limits for root (doubtful)?  Can you set the FC_DEBUG
> > variable, then send me the output of the above command?  Honestly, I'm
> > surprised you got through 100dpi.  Thanks.
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> On one of my machines, with 64MB RAM and only 128MB of swap, fc-cache
> also used to bomb out during the installation of the port.  Now that
> I've added 512MB of swap, it can run to completion, but when I check
> top in another window, fc-cache easily reaches 200MB.
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> IMHO it's somewhat too much memory use for such an app, especially
> when building world, gcc 3.2.2 and the rest of X has no problems on
> such a low memory box. :)  I've run some tests here with FC_DEBUG=3D512,
> but it seems to tell that it is using only a few megs.  I'm probably
> misinterpreting the debug output.

Once you've built the case, fc-cache [-v] will not rebuild it.  You have
to specify fc-cache -f -v.  In any event, I appreciate the debug output,
and I will analyze it when I wake up today.

Joe

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