[oe] Moving fontconfig cache out of tmpfs

Stefan Schmidt stefan at datenfreihafen.org
Mon Nov 17 15:19:09 UTC 2008


Hello.

Raster found out a pretty interestesting optimization option.

At the moment we refer to the fontconfig cahc elike this in
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf:

<cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>

/var/cache is a symlink to var/volatile/cache which is mounted as tmpfs.

This means that the cache has to regenerated on every boot. This can cost up to
20s.

What do people think about pointing this to something not mounted as tmpfs? Any
problems I'm not aware of?

regards
Stefan Schmidt




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