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Re: Slow performance following upgrade


On 3/24/07, Zak Johnson wrote:
Lev Bishop wrote:
> With the default fontconfig install, fc-cache tries to put the caches
> in /var/cache/fontconfig and ~/.fontconfig. Check you can write and
> create files in those directories.

Thanks for the suggestions.  ~/.fontconfig did not exist;
/var/cache/fontconfig was owned and writeable by me.  Just to be sure, I
copied files into that directory successfully.  I rebooted to safe mode
and ran "rm -rf /var/cache/fontconfig" (successfully, with no errors).
Still at the command window with nothing else running, I ran "fc-cache
--really-force --verbose" (sorry for the long lines):

    /usr/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: failed to write cache
    caching, 0 fonts, 6 dirs
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: failed to write cache
    caching, 398 fonts, 0 dirs
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF: failed to write cache
    caching, 47 fonts, 0 dirs
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1: failed to write cache
    caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings: failed to write cache
    caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large: failed to write cache
    caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc: failed to write cache
    caching, 55 fonts, 0 dirs
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util: failed to write cache
    caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
    /home/zjohnson/.fonts: skipping, no such directory
    /var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
    /home/zjohnson/.fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
    fc-cache: failed

fc-cache had created /var/cache/fontconfig, owned and writeable (0755)
by me (again verified by copying files into the directory successfully).
It sure seems like slow XFT is a symptom of some other underlying
problem; what else can I do to diagnose?

-Zak

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