Re: Low memory hacks

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 16:41 +0100, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 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...
> 

Just to add something minor to this thread, I don't know how many of you
have read my most recent blog post but check out the sweep stake idea

This could be a fun way to help with this problem

http://www.qdh.org.uk/wordpress/?p=210

K,