On 23 Jun 2014 "Chris Young"
<chris.young@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:58:52 +0100, Peter Young wrote:
>> 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.
> I'm sure Vince will correct me here, but I believe NetSurf saves the
> cache files to disk when they are downloaded (as opposed to when they
> are evicted from the memory cache), so you will get a delay as NetSurf
> gets busy saving the files.
> If you've gone back to the same site though most of the files should
> be loading from disk and I wouldn't expect any additional delay. You
> will need to post a log file so we can get a handle on exactly what is
> causing the pauses.
Thanks, Chris. I've a couple of busy days coming up, with one early
start, but I'll try to save a log after a new day's start-up, and give
some timings of the hourglass activity on the BBC news site. Where or
to whom should I post the log?
>> 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?
> Yes. That's only 22MB. The default limit is 1GB.
>> I've already excluded this directory from my
>> daily backup, which has been taking a lot longer since I started using
>> !Cache.
> There's no point in backing up these files.
Thanks again for these two points.
Best wishes,
Peter.
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