Circa 2001-Nov-04 12:24:38 -0500 dixit Ryan Patrick Harris:
: You might also want to consider simply using the font server within X.
: Because on many distributions (I'm really not sure about Redhat, but I
: would hope it would), X receives a negative nice value. Since,
: usually, xfs isn't negatively niced, font performance seems to be a
: little skippier from X itself.
Bad idea for:
(1) Scalable fonts (e.g., TrueType, Type1)
(2) Fonts with more than 256 glyphs
(3) In particular, combinations of [1] and [2]
Especially if your server has a higher scheduling priority (lower
"nice" value). Then, not only will your X server spend a lot of time
rasterizing a large font, but other programs won't get very much done
during that time either.
Because xfs rasterizes fonts in a separate process, it doesn't affect
your server performance more than any other coprocess. xfs is also
capable of deferring rasterization of glyphs for large (i.e., 16-bit)
fonts, giving you potential for even snappier performance in many
cases.
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