Philip Van Hoof wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 13:36 +0100, Rob Taylor wrote: >> Patryk Zawadzki wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Rob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> could also clean out thumbnails that haven't been *accessed* after a >>>> certain time period, which should give better performance. >>> How do you do that when 99% of desktop PCs use noatime precisely for >>> that - perfomance? ;) >>> >> Don't use atime? The daemon knows when the thumbnails have been accessed >> because it served them. > > You are not required to ask the daemon each time. You can just first > lookup the thumbnail path for an original, and if it's not there you > could ask the thumbnailer to make it for you. And then it'll tell you > when it's finished with that. > > That's also the recommended way. Calculating an MD5 is less expensive > than doing a DBus method. > > Of course is this a task for a toolkit specific library that does > thumbnailing for your application developers. >
Ah, good point, I guess LRU is out of the question then. Maybe random would be better than the current heuristics ;) Rob -- Rob Taylor, Codethink Ltd. - http://codethink.co.uk _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list