[luatex] mkluatexfontdb devours memory

[Arno Trautmann]

Hi Philipp,

the output of

luaotfload-tool --update --force --verbose=5 --log=stdout

is available under

http://justpaste.it/2lhr

I stopped the program when suddenly the memory ran full. This happend at 
some step, it did not increase steadily during the whole process. Also, 
the CPU was at 100% from that point on. The output doesn't seem to 
report an error, does it?

cheers
Arno

Philipp Gesang wrote:
> Hi Arno!
>
> ···<date: 2013-05-09, Thursday>···<from: Arno Trautmann>···
>
>> after some days I tried to compile a basic document with LuaLaTeX
>> today but the memory just ran full and nothing happened. Trying only
>> to update the font database leads to:
>>
>> arno at tiger> mkluatexfontdb -vvv
>>
>> luaotfload | util: setting log level
>> luaotfload | util: task completed successfully
>> luaotfload | db: Updating the font names database
>> luaotfload | db: Font names database not found, generating new one.
>>               This can take several minutes; please be patient.
>> luaotfload | db: Updating the font names database
>> luaotfload | db: Scanning TEXMF fonts...
>> luaotfload | db: Scanning OS fonts...
>> luaotfload | db: Searching in static system directories...
>>
>> Then nothing happens, and I only see how my memory gets full untill
>> the full 3+1GB RAM and swap are full. This happens on a linux X86_64
>> with today's updated TeX Live. I'm sorry if this is already
>> reported, I didn't have much time to read all the messages about
>> LuaTeX carefully.
>
> Could this be due to symlink recursion? Can you paste the output
> of
>
>    luaotfload-tool --update --force --verbose=5 --log=stdout
>
> (preferably to some paste site).
>
> Thanks
> Philipp
>
>