X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:22:35 -0400 From: "Lev Bishop" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Slow performance following upgrade In-Reply-To: <20070324211844.74102.qmail@nox.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070323063821.19925.qmail@nox.cx> <20070323160832.16683.qmail@nox.cx> <20070324211844.74102.qmail@nox.cx> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/