Re: !Cache management

cj wrote on 16 Nov:
> Is anyone else finding that the new Cache feature does not seem to
> expire its content?

Well, that was a revelation. Did a count on
!Boot.resources.!cache.caches.default.netsurf and find 222 megabytes
of stuff. Earliest date seems to be Sept 06.

A typical item within this folder is filetyped as text but contains
gobbledygook.

What is supposed to control expiry? Can't find anything about expiry
within the !Cache application itself.
Ah, Netsurf choices--cache. Disc cache size is set at 1024M (which
I presume is meant as a max), and expiry at 28 days. Those figures
seem to be defaults, because I have never altered them.

Don't recall any discussion or explanation when Netsurf adopted !Cache
-- when was that? Maybe it happened while I was away and I missed it.

!Cache, according to its helpfile, was written by Adam Richardson
("Snowstone") in 2007. The current version 1.13 on his website has a
runfile dated 2007-june-14. The runfile of my active copy in Boot
Resources (which presumably came with a recent-ish version of Netsurf
inside its usual boot-update file) is dated 2014-09-16, but !Sidediff
shows it is identical to the 2007 runfile.


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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk