[gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

[gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

[Urs Schuetz]

Acroread startup is very slow on my gentoo sistem. It takes more
than 2 minutes to start acrobat on my old AMD Duron 800 MHz. Also
on further startups the load time stays more or less the same.

The CPU is 100% used during most of the startup period, which is
strange. Top shows CPU usage of 75-98% for acroread during
startup.

I have this long startup time only since upgrade to version
7.0.5-r1. The older version 7.0.1.1 loaded within 15 seconds
first load, and within 5 seconds on further loads.

ldd /opt/Acrobat7/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread showed a problem
with the library path. So I added
/opt/Acrobat7/Reader/intellinux/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I also moved plugins in 
/opt/Acrobat7/Reader/intellinux/plug_in
to 
/opt/Acrobat7/Reader/intellinux/plug_in_DO_NOT_LOAD_THEM, 
and moved 
/opt/Acrobat7/Reader/intellinux/SPPlugins/ADMPlugin.apl 
to
/opt/Acrobat7/Reader/intellinux/plug_in_DO_NOT_LOAD_THEM.

But the startup time on version 7.0.5-r1 of acrobat reader is
still more than 2 minutes.

strace acroread
shows that acroread 7.0.5-r1 uses a very long time with fonts
and nonexistent directories like /usr/psres and
/usr/share/fonts/afms//usr/share/fonts/afms:

...
 open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fences.ttf", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
 open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/l048013t.pfa", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
 getdents64(5, /* 0 entries */, 4096)    = 0
 close(5)                                = 0
...

and "hangs" here for about 10 seconds, with CPU 100% used. This
happens nine times during startup.

I don't see any network activity during startup of acroread
(blocked with:
iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp -m owner --cmd-owner acroread -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset)

Sorry for the long lines.

Can anybody conirm this slow startup, or is it just me? Any hints
how to speed up acrobat reader 7.0.5-r1?

Urs

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Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

[Andrew Gaydenko]

I can. It takes ~40 second at P4 2.4. Acroread isn't open source,
so, instead of filing any bug, I switched to kpdf :-)

======= On Sunday 26 February 2006 02:35, Urs Schuetz wrote: =======
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Can anybody conirm this slow startup, or is it just me? Any hints
how to speed up acrobat reader 7.0.5-r1?

Urs

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Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

[Willie Wong]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:35:44PM -0300, Penguin Lover Urs Schuetz squawked:
> Can anybody conirm this slow startup, or is it just me? Any hints
> how to speed up acrobat reader 7.0.5-r1?
> 
I can confirm. It took two and a half minutes now on my box (P4 2GHz,
512M ram). It does feel slower than the older version.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

[Mark Loeser]

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Urs Schuetz <u.schutz@bluewin.ch> said:
> Can anybody conirm this slow startup, or is it just me? Any hints
> how to speed up acrobat reader 7.0.5-r1?

I noticed the same thing.  There is a bug open about it on
bugs.gentoo.org I believe, but the workaround for now is:

mv ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt07.lst ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt.old
touch ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt07.lst

That worked for me atleast.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

[Greg Bengeult]

Urs Schuetz wrote:
> Acroread startup is very slow on my gentoo sistem. It takes more
> than 2 minutes to start acrobat on my old AMD Duron 800 MHz. Also
> on further startups the load time stays more or less the same.
> 

I can confirm the same behavior on my system.  800 MHz hyperthreaded P4, 
and top shows that one of the cores hits 100% while acroread is starting 
up.  It takes nearly three minutes to load, and strace shows it hanging 
at the same places.  I'll probably go back to 7.0.1.1.

Greg
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Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

[Willie Wong]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:35:44PM -0300, Penguin Lover Urs Schuetz squawked:
> strace acroread
> shows that acroread 7.0.5-r1 uses a very long time with fonts
> and nonexistent directories like /usr/psres and
> /usr/share/fonts/afms//usr/share/fonts/afms:
> 
> ...
>  open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fences.ttf", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
>  open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/l048013t.pfa", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
>  getdents64(5, /* 0 entries */, 4096)    = 0
>  close(5)                                = 0
> ...
> 
> and "hangs" here for about 10 seconds, with CPU 100% used. This
> happens nine times during startup.
> 

from the forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org//viewtopic-t-420754-highlight-acroread.html?sid=5118566558bdce7510b095567e7b6d4c

the file ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt07.lst stores a list of all
the fonts on your system (which, in my case, gives 9387 entries) and
apparently it tries to open those one by one on startup and look
inside (what for, I don't know). 

A temporary work around is provide in the link above, which amounts to
removing that font file prior to starting acroread. If I do that,
acroread starts under 5 seconds for every one of the five times I
tried. 

Notice that /usr/bin/acroread is just a batch file to launch the
executable, so if you are adventurous, you can go dig inside it a bit. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

[Greg Bengeult]

Mark Loeser wrote:
> Urs Schuetz <u.schutz@bluewin.ch> said:
> 
>>Can anybody conirm this slow startup, or is it just me? Any hints
>>how to speed up acrobat reader 7.0.5-r1?
> 
> 
> I noticed the same thing.  There is a bug open about it on
> bugs.gentoo.org I believe, but the workaround for now is:
> 
> mv ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt07.lst ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt.old
> touch ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt07.lst
> 
> That worked for me atleast.
> 

Works for me too.  Thanks Mark.

Greg

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[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

[Urs Schuetz]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Willie Wong wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:35:44PM -0300, Penguin Lover Urs Schuetz squawked:
> > strace acroread
> > shows that acroread 7.0.5-r1 uses a very long time with fonts
> > and nonexistent directories like /usr/psres and
> > /usr/share/fonts/afms//usr/share/fonts/afms:
> > 
> > ...
> >  open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fences.ttf", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
> >  open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/l048013t.pfa", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
> >  getdents64(5, /* 0 entries */, 4096)    = 0
> >  close(5)                                = 0
> > ...
> > 
> > and "hangs" here for about 10 seconds, with CPU 100% used. This
> > happens nine times during startup.
> > 
> 
> from the forums:
> 
> http://forums.gentoo.org//viewtopic-t-420754-highlight-acroread.html?sid=5118566558bdce7510b095567e7b6d4c
> 
> the file ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt07.lst stores a list
> of all the fonts on your system (which, in my case, gives 9387
> entries) and apparently it tries to open those one by one on
> startup and look inside (what for, I don't know).

Thanks for the forums link, and the other hints! The following
ideas from the forum solved the slow startup:

as user:
rm ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt07.lst
ln -s /dev/null ~/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/Cache/UnixFnt07.lst

and as root:
cd /usr/share/fonts
chmod 750 100dpi 75dpi cyrillic misc ukr

(I did not test this for side effects yet, try at your own risk!)

Now the acroread startup times are back to normal. It helps to
remove unused plugins in /opt/Acrobat7/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins

Urs


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