Re: Lower max size of HTTP cache?

On 12/08/2011 12:22 AM, Jason Duell wrote:
> 2) When a user clicks "clear recent history" we blow away the whole
> disk cache (we don't have a way to remove items by time added).
> Michal tells me we don't use nsDeleteDir for this (which would be
> async): instead we synchronously evict the entire cache :(   I'm not

We use nsDeleteDir if we can. I.e. when no cache entry is in use.


> sure if that's fixable (the issue is what to do with loads that are
> using the cache as the user hits the button IIRC), but assuming it's
> not in a short time frame, that might be enough to merit keeping the
> size under a gig.

It must be fixable. I'll have a look at possibilities of forcibly 
closing of all active entries to be able to use nsDeleteDir.


Michal