rxvt-unicode extremely slow to start

[Ken Preslan]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:29:57PM +0200, Clemens Lang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 02:02:22PM -0500, Ken Preslan wrote:
> > > Smells an aweful lot like a font-cache update going on in the
> > > background. Start urxvt under opensnoop:
> > > 
> > >  Shell 1: sudo opensnoop -n rxvt-unicode (or whatever the process name is)
> > >  Shell 2: urxvt
> > > 
> > > If it shows opening thousands of font files it's updating the font
> > > cache. The question then would be why it doesn't keep the cache. Maybe
> > > the location where it tries to put the cache isn't writable?
> > 
> > I see the same thing with "emacs +x11".  If I revert the "fontconfig"
> > package back to r149841, the problem goes away.
> 
> I'd say that's the very definition of a regression (even though it
> doesn't happen for me). Can I ask you to file a ticket with your
> findings so that the maintainer can have a look?

I created a ticket with my findings and cross-linked it with ticket 52088.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52099

They seem like they are probably the same thing, but tickets are cheap.

-- 
Ken Preslan <ken at preslan.org>