Bug 19 - fontconfig eat all my memory
Summary: fontconfig eat all my memory
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 5
Alias: None
Product: fontconfig
Classification: Unclassified
Component: library (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: lowest critical
Assignee: Keith Packard
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Reported: 2003-01-29 04:47 UTC by Daniele Nicolodi
Modified: 2003-02-04 23:35 UTC (History)
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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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