On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:30:30PM +0100, Rob Taylor wrote: > Emmanuel Pacaud wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On mar, 2008-09-16 at 11:34 +0200, Stephane Delcroix wrote: > >> Hey guys, > >> The plugin does something like this: > >> - clean the thumbnails older than MAX_AGE (default to 60 days) > >> - clean the oldest thumbnails until the cache size is under MAX_SIZE > >> (default to 64MB) > > > > I don't get why it work like this. Why remove a thumbnail because it's > > old ? Why would we want to limit the size of the thumbnail cache to an > > arbitrary value ? It depends on the disk size, and it will limit itself > > by the fact the size of the thumbnailed files is largely bigger than the > > thumbnail size. > > > > Wouldn't it be better to just remove thumbnail of files that don't exist > > anymore ? > > I guess when Philip's thumbnailer daemon is starting to get widely used, > It could do the job of cleaning the cache. This would mean that you > would no longer have thumbnails lying around for deleted files and it > could also clean out thumbnails that haven't been *accessed* after a > certain time period, which should give better performance.
More info about this here: http://live.gnome.org/ThumbnailerSpec -- Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv) http://www.savanne.be _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list