I seem to have found a fix ...
Message: 5
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 19:06:21 -0500
From: Jim Tisdall <tisd...@tisdall.net>
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: mac web fontconfig slowdown
Message-ID: <56b295fd.5040...@tisdall.net>
on mac os x 10.11.2, lilypond 2.18.2, plenty nice mac pro plenty ram
Serious slowdown due to font configuration - 30 seconds delay
while "FontConfig" is called - happens when you do a
lilypond -V for instance.
Fixed from command line using /opt/local/bin/fc-cache
for each user (root, me, ...) which creates files
.lilypond-fonts.cache-2 in home directories
But I still have delay problem running lilypond from a web program -
I use user:group _www:_www which works fine for everything but this.
30 second delay. (No home directory for _www due to security)
(First, I believe it was lilypond -V, not fc-cache, that
as creating the .lilypond-fonts.cache-2 files. Anyway ...)
To fix for web operation, an apache2 httpd that uses
User/Group _www/_www where _www has no login directory)
Edit
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/etc/fonts/local.conf
change
<cachedir>~/.lilypond-fonts.cache-2</cachedir>
to
<cachedir>.lilypond-fonts.cache-2</cachedir>
cd to cgi-bin, which on my system is
root# cd /Applications/WebServer/CGI-Executables
and run
root# /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond -V
which creates a cache in my cgi-bin called .lilypond-fonts.cache-2
--> That did it! The web program now takes 1 second on a small score
instead of 30 seconds
I then re-edited
/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/etc/fonts/local.conf
so that both these lines appear one after the other:
<cachedir>~/.lilypond-fonts.cache-2</cachedir>
<cachedir>.lilypond-fonts.cache-2</cachedir>
That's so that when a home directory can be found,
lilypond will use the cache there instead of the one in cgi-bin
(Caveat: there well may be an easier way to accomplish this - but this
works at least.) (Thanks to Jacques Menu for looking at this problem.)
Jim
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