On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 04:02:02AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 03:59, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:51:15AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:00:34PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 13:30, Shizuka Kudo wrote: > > > > > --- Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:46:39PM +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote: > > > > > > > I had this bug, but now it is over...It has been fixed. Do a CVSUP and all > > > > > > > should now be ok. > > > > > > > > > > > > > No. This is with the latest port. Where specifically it > > > > > > was fixed? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The exact cvs message is as follows. Having you tried 'fc-cache -f' to rebuild font cache as root > > > > > in a text console and delete the fontcache in your home directory (This solved my problem when > > > > > starting a KDE session)? > > > > > > > > But Ruslan is reporting the bug in 2.1.92 which incorporates this fix. > > > > Besides, what Ruslan is seeing is a different crash. I'm wondering if > > > > it is indeed an issue with not having enough memory. All my machines > > > > have at least 512 MB of RAM, and I've never encountered this error. > > > > Anyone have a machine with < 200 MB of RAM and is _not_ having a problem > > > > with fontconfig? > > > > > > > Hmm, I initially didn't notice this, because it was a batched install > > > of XFree86-4. Now that I try to manually reinstall the port, it says: > > > > > > ===> Generating temporary packing list > > > Running fc-cache to build fontconfig cache... > > > fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 13 dirs > > > fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi": caching, 397 fonts, 0 dirs > > > fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": Killed > > > *** Error code 137 > > > > > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig. > > > > > > Apr 9 10:46:14 lurker kernel: pid 6636 (fc-cache), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > > > > > > Where do I look for a fix? > > > > > Okie dokie. I've worked around this by stopping all applications. > > While running, this fc-cache has eaten almost all of my memory. > > My machine has 128M RAM and 128M swap. It sure looks like a > > memory leak issue. > > Yeah, probably a combination of multiple memory leaks. I tried to hunt > it down earlier today, but ran out of time. The debug output should > help. Thanks for the swap info. I had a feeling systems like this > might be the culprit. > What I noticed by watching the swapinfo(8) output is that it never releases the memory after continuing with the next font directory. Is this expected? Does it need to preserve something across different font directories? If not, this is a memory leak for sure. I'm willing to test the patches, should they be available. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru_at_sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age
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