fontconfig-2.1.92 considered harmful

[Dimitry Andric]

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On 2003-04-09 at 10:00:37 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> 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.

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.

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=512,
but it seems to tell that it is using only a few megs.  I'm probably
misinterpreting the debug output.

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