Re: Severe performance issues with pkgsrc-2006Q3?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

Am 06.12.2006 um 17:54 Uhr +0100 schrieb Christian Biere:
> I'd use ktruss instead of ktrace but anyway just grep for errors. It possible
> that you've configured to store that stuff elsewhere like /usr/pkg/var or
> whatever.
>
> >  /var/cache/fontconfig is root:wheel, 755, and remains empty after a
> >  fc-cache run.
>
> Well, I'd recommend using pkgsrc unprivileged instead of using the root
> account.

"using pkgsrc" as in "running fc-cache?" Or, what do you mean?

>  Anyway, is that with fc-cache emitting errors or after fixing
> that?

No fixing, since I didn't know what fc-cache was missing.

> >  I added an explicit <cachedir> entry to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf,
>
> Are you sure it's using that at all instead of, for example,
> /usr/pkg/etc/fonts/fonts.conf?

Bingo. The <cachedir> directive wasn't in there, either, but when I 
added it, things started to change. /var/cache/fontconfig is 
populated now, and UI response times seem back to normal.

>  Indeed I have that file and in this
> file there's the reference to /var/cache/fontconfig, it's not in
> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf which exists as well. I never edited any of
> those. It's XML, I'd remember that.

*g*

Well, there is

[hf@Hausruck] ~ > locate fc-cache
/usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache
/usr/X11R6/man/cat1/fc-cache.0
/usr/X11R6/man/man1/fc-cache.1
/usr/pkg/bin/fc-cache
/usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/bin/fc-cache
/usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/share/man/man1/fc-cache.1
[hf@Hausruck] ~ >

and, correspondingly, /etc/fonts.conf and (here) 
/etc/pkg/fontconfig/fonts.conf. Don't know which is called from 
where, and when. The pkgsrc fc-cache misses a man page.

And, as Jörg suspected, my /etc/pkg/fontconfig/fonts.conf is outdated.

Looks like I'll be back on track soon.

Thanks, guys!

        hauke

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