Hi, Hans van der Meer wrote:
I have a setup with several users, one acting as system administrator, the others as users. What can be said regarding the setup of the luatex cache?
First advise: use a local disk. Caches on network paths are a bad idea.
The possibilities I see are: (1) central cache in the /usr/local/texlive tree;
The cache will also contain files downloaded at runtime from the internet (if any). Truly paranoid security people would be against a central cache for that reason, but otherwise this is best.
(2) decentralized cache per user in its local texmf tree (3) decentralized cache per user in some unrelated directory
Whether the tree is within or outside of texmf doesn't matter to the system. Choose your location based on personal preference.
(4) decentralized cache per user in /tmp (cleaned out by the system on restart, i think)
Just like the old /var/tex tree, most of the files in the cache are supposed to be long-lived (formats, preprocessed fonts). Ram-based or auto-cleaned filesystems are a decidedly bad idea (unless your disk is continually at 99%) Best wishes, Taco