XEmacs 21.5 beta and FC 9 preview

[Mike FABIAN]

Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> さんは書きました:

> Mike FABIAN wrote:
>> Mike FABIAN <mfabian at suse.de> さんは書きました:
>>>>>
>>>> Well, the reason that I got the big jump at the beginning is that I
>>>> foolishly loaded all of the fonts that I have on my system right away.
>>> How did you do that?
>>
>> I ask because I would like to try whether I can reproduce it.
>>
>> Currently I don’t know how to reproduce the increasing memory
>> consumption. It just “happens sometimes” if I am using XEmacs for a long
>> time.
>>
>
> That is described in
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta/24873

> For Solaris, there is no /usr/share/fonts.  So, I made that a symlink
> to where all of my fonts are.  But, there are quite a large number in
> the actual directory that I linked to.  And, I think, that is why it
> starts consuming large amounts of memory.

I did read your post in the archive but it didn’t seem to apply to me.
On my linux system there is a /usr/share/fonts directory with several
sub-directories which all together contain a huge amount of fonts:

mfabian at magellan:~$ fc-list : file | wc 
   3413    3683  138337
mfabian at magellan:~$

I.e. I have 3413 font files installed. The /usr/share/fonts/truetype
directory alone contains 909 font files:

mfabian at magellan:~$ fc-list : file | grep usr/share/fonts/truetype | wc 
    909     912   38611
mfabian at magellan:~$

Nevertheless, XEmacs doesn’t consume huge amounts of memory while
starting but only much later when I am already using if for many hours
or even days.

> However, xft xemacs was pretty unstable for me, so it could have been
> something else.  Lots of crashes.

I have lots of crashes as well but all of them seem to be in the new
garbage collector, always the same backtrace:

    http://tracker.xemacs.org/XEmacs/its/issue359

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