Bug 19

Summary:	fontconfig eat all my memory
Product:	fontconfig	Reporter:	Daniele Nicolodi <daniele>
Component:	library	Assignee:	Keith Packard <keithp>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	lowest
Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Daniele Nicolodi 2003-01-29 04:47:17 UTC

I have installed gnome2 on a PC with only 128 Mb of ram. When i try to start any
application that uses fontconfig library it eat all my memory. I can't start
either gnome-caculator becouse i go out of memory and kernel start to kill
process to free some.

Fontconfig allocate a lot of memory. It allocate an amount of memory
proportional to the number (or the size) of fonts installed on the system.

I think that require more than 128 Mb of ram only to get gnome-calculator (or
any other very simple application that uses fontconfig to get fonts) is
unacceptable.

I have investigated on why fontconfig require so much memory but i hope that is
a bug and not a design fault. If is required i can investigate in details what
appen.

Comment 1 Mike Harris 2003-01-29 05:45:15 UTC

This bug sounds similar to bug #5

Comment 2 Keith Packard 2003-02-05 18:35:04 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5 ***

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