Re: Are lynx cache an issue?

On Fri, 22 May 2026, Mouse wrote:

>To diagnose this in detail, I would run whatever you were doing under
>syscall tracing (ktrace, strace, whatever your OS provides for syscall

=E2=80=A6 that=E2=80=99s way beyond the technological level of most people =
here,
you know (:


On Fri, 22 May 2026, Chime Hart wrote:

>Well, thanks Mouse: In my local case, lynx is saving html versions of
>each file during a session to /temp.

It does that (to /tmp), yes. Which is why it is not a good tool for
large downloads; use an external downloader for that. The menu that
pops up when you=E2=80=99re on a link and press the . (full stop) key often
has more suitable downloaders like GNU wget configured. If not, it
can be done in lynx.cfg, if you know where you can edit yours.

>After around 3.9GB I receive an error.

This is the interesting part, to me. I=E2=80=99d think it would then evict
the oldest document from the cache to make room. Maybe Thomas knows.

>One of my Linux experts wonders if it depends on how much ram?

/tmp is usually an in-memory filesystem, especially on Linux, where
it tends to be sized to be allowed to grow up to half the installed
RAM.

Good luck,
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