Re: Low memory hacks

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:32 +0000, Brian Nitz wrote:

> But if a 
> feature isn't used 99.999% of the time and it consumes resources, it 
> should have an off switch.

No.  If a feature isn't used 99.999% of the time and it consumes
resources, it's a bug and should be fixed.

> Your comments and a couple of experiments with dtrace and various other 
> tools,  convinced me that it probably isn't worthwhile to restrict the 
> opening of these font cache files by locale even in cases where they are 
> remotely mounted via NFS.  (Does anyone remember when Apple system 
> performance was proportional to the number of installed fonts?)

Just use latest fontconfig.  It doesn't create cache files on NFS
anymore.  It's not productive running 3 year old software and talking
about improvements...

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