http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17548
Summary: wine startup scans all fonts, takes ages Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: PC-x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: felix-wine@fefe.de
wine startup takes ages for me, particularly the first time. I have about 3500 fonts installed on my system, and wine opens all the files at startup. This takes 15-20 seconds on my moderately fast PC. I find this completely unacceptable. We already have TWO font databases to avoid exactly this unnecessary work: fontconfig and the "Software\Wine\Fonts\External Fonts" key in user.reg.
Please give me a way to stop this.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17548
Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|normal |trivial
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Felix von Leitner felix-wine@fefe.de changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|trivial |normal
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Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|normal |trivial
--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com 2009-02-28 14:40:00 --- Read definitions of severity levels: http://bugs.winehq.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity
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Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com 2009-03-03 08:38:57 --- *** Bug 17598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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--- Comment #3 from jack fear jack_fear_2009@hotmail.com 2009-03-03 18:10:51 --- This bug makes wine useless if you have more than default fonts installed. Wine system tray also fails to load due to fonts in linux.
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--- Comment #4 from jack fear jack_fear_2009@hotmail.com 2009-03-03 18:13:40 --- (In reply to comment #1)
Read definitions of severity levels: http://bugs.winehq.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity
I would mark this as MAJOR. It stops applications from functioning.
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Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com changed:
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--- Comment #5 from Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com 2009-03-10 21:31:53 --- *** Bug 17674 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Andrew Roth andrewroth@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever Confirmed|0 |1
--- Comment #6 from Andrew Roth andrewroth@gmail.com 2009-03-11 11:08:32 --- *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
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--- Comment #7 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-09-08 11:42:49 --- Is this still an issue in current (1.1.29 or newer) wine?
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Sebastian Thürrschmidt thuerrschmidt@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #8 from Sebastian Thürrschmidt thuerrschmidt@gmail.com 2009-09-16 15:09:42 --- This is still very much an issue with Wine 1.29 (as with all previous versions I have used, going back to pre-1.0 times). The start-up time of any Windows executable run under Wine will increase dramatically (and non-proportionally) when the number of fonts installed under Linux grows into the thousands.
My computer is a fairly recent Core 2 notebook currently running Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) amd64 Alpha 5 with Wine 1.29 (Jaunty build). I have a few hundred fonts installed in /usr/share/fonts, which constitute the font set that I actually use. In addition, I have a collection of several thousand font files in ~/share/fonts, few of which I actually ever use.
As long as only the system-wide fonts (i.e. those in /usr/share/fonts) are active, launching most Windows programs with Wine doesn't take more than a few seconds. If, however, I add a reference to my user font directory (~/share/fonts) in ~./.fonts.conf and then try to run a Windows program, even a very simple one like Wine's own notepad.exe, there will be frenetic activity (in terms of processor load and hard disk access) for several minutes, without any visual feedback from Wine and/or the operating system. Only after this long delay will an application window appear.
When I launch another program with Wine (or the same program again) during the same session, the delay will initially be much shorter. Later on, however, and especially after I restart the computer, the delay will go into the minutes again.
Here are some measurements that I took, the first one with only the system-wide fonts being active:
time wine cmd.exe /c exit
real 0m1.206s user 0m0.144s sys 0m0.052s
Then I added ~/share/fonts to my .fonts.conf and ran the fc-cache command, and I got these results:
time wine cmd.exe /c exit
real 2m20.847s user 0m1.280s sys 0m0.412s
Without any changes to my font configuration, I ran the same command once more:
time wine cmd.exe /c exit
real 0m5.495s user 0m1.236s sys 0m0.348s
So the time needed to start and immediately quit cmd.exe went from about 1 second with a few hundred fonts installed, to well over two minutes with several thousands fonts installed, back to just five seconds with the same huge font set. However, after restarting my computer and with system-wide plus user fonts still all installed, the delay went up again:
time wine cmd.exe /c exit
real 2m43.974s user 0m1.192s sys 0m0.552s
Finally, after removing the reference to ~/usr/share/fonts in .fonts.conf and running fc-cache once more, I got these results:
time wine cmd.exe /c exit
real 0m1.283s user 0m0.128s sys 0m0.068s
To summarize: There seem to be scaling problems in the way Wine manages font information, which are most visible when an above-average number of fonts are installed. While having thousands of fonts installed simultaneously is certaily not a good idea and can be avoided by using tools like FontForge, applications should a least give the user some kind of feedback during long delays, font-related or otherwise, to avoid the impression of blockage. Apart from that, even with thousands of fonts installed, most of the Linux applications I know (Inkscape being one notable exception) show only minor delays during launch and/or user interaction. The same should be true of Wine.
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Martin Lindhe martin@startwars.org changed:
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Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jstpierre@mecheye.net
--- Comment #9 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com 2010-07-13 01:01:15 --- *** Bug 23630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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--- Comment #10 from butraxz@gmail.com 2013-04-23 15:34:38 CDT --- No update for 900 days. Is this still an issue in 1.5.28 or higher or should this be closed as abandoned ?
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Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |austinenglish@gmail.com
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Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |ABANDONED
--- Comment #11 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com --- Over 2 years with no reply, marking abandoned.
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André H. nerv@dawncrow.de changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED CC| |nerv@dawncrow.de
--- Comment #12 from André H. nerv@dawncrow.de --- closing abandoned
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