Alan, thanks for the reply.
I do have fc-cache ran at least at each boot time. I've noticed FF opening all the fc-cache files in the various places at launch time. Everything looks good until I visit a mathml page (pls see those I cite for reference). At this point FF3.0.1 stalls for 2-4 minutes and truss'ing the PID show it is checking all the font files for by xstat(). I guess it's trying to find out the files size to preload it in memory for caching? I thought that this wouldn't be necessary but I guess the mathml code maybe is out of sync with the rest of the font-management system within FF3.X ? again kudos to all the nice things introduced with FF3.X for Solaris10. Next step would be a recent desktop environment for Solaris with all the nice modern graphical libraries... thanks Michael Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Michael E. Thomadakis wrote: >> I've noticed FF 3.0.1 (on solaris10 amd64) stalling at times, while I >> was viewing mathml documents at http://pear.math.pitt.edu/mathzilla/ >> (look for sample mathml documents there, eg., see >> "http://pear.math.pitt.edu/mathzilla/Examples/markupOftheWeek.mhtml";). >> After I did a >> >> truss -fvall -p FFpid >> >> I saw that it kept checking all of my font files every once a while. >> I do have 2295 fonts installed (most from LaTex 'texlive' >> distribution) so that was taking some time (1-3min). See bellow excerpt: >> >> ..... >> 20891/1: xstat(2, >> "/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/cspsfonts-adobe/zapfchan", >> 0x0803D280) = 0 >> 20891/1: d=0x01980044 i=161341 m=0040755 l=2 u=0 g=0 sz=512 >> 20891/1: at = Apr 22 13:16:02 CDT 2008 [ 1208888162 ] >> 20891/1: mt = Apr 17 13:06:03 CDT 2008 [ 1208455563 ] >> 20891/1: ct = Apr 17 13:06:03 CDT 2008 [ 1208455563 ] >> 20891/1: bsz=8192 blks=2 fs=ufs >> 20891/1: xstat(2, >> "/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/ibm/timesnew", >> 0x0803D280) = 0 >> 20891/1: d=0x01980044 i=161344 m=0040755 l=2 u=0 g=0 sz=1024 >> 20891/1: at = Apr 22 13:16:02 CDT 2008 [ 1208888162 ] >> 20891/1: mt = Apr 17 13:06:03 CDT 2008 [ 1208455563 ] >> 20891/1: ct = Apr 17 13:06:03 CDT 2008 [ 1208455563 ] >> 20891/1: bsz=8192 blks=2 fs=ufs >> 20891/1: xstat(2, >> "/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/monotype/helvetic", >> 0x0803D280) = 0 >> 20891/1: d=0x01980044 i=161368 m=0040755 l=2 u=0 g=0 sz=512 >> 20891/1: at = Apr 22 13:16:02 CDT 2008 [ 1208888162 ] >> 20891/1: mt = Apr 17 13:06:03 CDT 2008 [ 1208455563 ] >> 20891/1: ct = Apr 17 13:06:03 CDT 2008 [ 1208455563 ] >> 20891/1: bsz=8192 blks=2 fs=ufs >> 20891/1: xstat(2, >> "/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/monotype/timesnew", >> 0x0803D280) = >> ..... >> >> I believe that checking the same collection of font files is wasteful >> and it should be only when really necessary. > > Have you run fc-cache to build a font cache so it doens't have to scan? > (Though you'd have to ask the Firefox guys why it rescans - normally > lack of a fc-cache just makes programs scan once at startup, not > repeatedly.) > -- % -------------------------------------------------------------------- \ % Michael E. Thomadakis, Ph.D. Senior Lead Systems Engineer/Res \ % E-mail: miket AT sc.tamu.edu Texas A&M University \ % miket AT tamu.edu Supercomputing Center \ % Voice: 979-862-3931 Teague Research Center, 104B \ % FAX: 979-847-8643 College Station, TX 77843 \ % -------------------------------------------------------------------- \
