137039 – acroread VERY slow startup for the first time

Bug 137039 - acroread VERY slow startup for the first time

Summary: acroread VERY slow startup for the first time

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 125529

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2006-06-16 16:24 UTC by Vadim
Modified:	2006-06-16 23:25 UTC (History)
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Description Vadim 2006-06-16 16:24:19 UTC

acroread 7.0.5-r2 takes 40 seconds to start on my P4 3GHz 1.5GB RAM fast SATA drive machine. Disk activity is noticeble during startup. After that (I suppose files get cached) it starts in a seconds.

I did all the magic with deleting .adobe directory and mentioned earlier font cache in it. Didn't help. Also as I see in /usr/bin/acroread font cache deletion magic is now built-in.

I strace-d acroread startup and see a lot of calls like:
..
stat64("/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/timesbi.ttf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=238612, ...}) = 0
..
for all the fonts.

I don't think I have too many fonts installed. And why do I notice no difference in acroread startup 1st and 2nd time on Ubuntu (with zillion of fonts)?

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-16 23:25:03 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125529 ***