[q]: fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np

[cacook at freedom.net]

g.patel at wanadoo.fr wrote:

> Maybe your apps dies while trying to download font information.
> Or you kill it before it has finished (it can take easily one minute
> or even more if you have a huge amount of fonts in your X system)
> Try to wait 5 minutes. The cacheing of fonts should not happen
> again,  unless you change your config.
>
> Gerard

Thank you.  This answers a problem I was having.
What changes to the config would reinflict this delay?  More fonts?
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