Monday, 23 June 2014

Disc cache worth it?

I've been using the disc cache on RISC OS 2.19, ARMini, and I seem to
have found some downsides to it, and I wonder if (a) I'm doing it
correctly and (b) if it's worth the occasional faster opening of some
sites.

If I load, for instance, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ as the first site
of a session, it loads maybe a little faster, but then I get
intermittent hourglass activity for sometimes up to thirty seconds,
during which I can't do anything else. There are several other sites,
for instance Wikipedia home page, which do the same. And the next day
the same happens.

Looking in !Cache, which is in !Boot.!Resources, I find that in the
Caches.Default.NetSurf directory there are currently 1933 files,
totalling 22449384 bytes. Is this to be expected, as I don't use
NetSurf a huge amount? I've already excluded this directory from my
daily backup, which has been taking a lot longer since I started using
!Cache.

Best wishes,

Peter.

--
Peter Young (zfc W) and family
Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England
http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
pnyoung@ormail.co.uk

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