[oe] Moving fontconfig cache out of tmpfs

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Mon Nov 17 15:47:36 UTC 2008


On 17-11-08 16:19, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> 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?

+1 for pointing it to /var/lib/fontconfig

regards,

Koen





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