Hi Vijay, On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 13:17, Vijay Tandeker <vij...@tejasnetworks.com> wrote: > Every night I do the compilation. I don't know but whenever I do the > compilation, cache size increases by few GBs (sometimes by few MBs).
That sounds perfectly normal for a build that generates parts of its source code with volatile things like timestamps or usage of __DATE__ in the source code, etc. > And every after 10-14 days, it hits the max and I need to again clean it > using -C option. No, you don't need to use -C since ccache performs automatic cleanup (see https://ccache.dev/manual/3.7.11.html#_automatic_cleanup). > My understanding of ccache is: > 1) in case of HIT, don't add anything. It should not increase the cache size. Correct. > 2) in case of MISS, if no entry is present, add new object file in the cache. > It should increase the "cache size" by size_of_object_file. Correct. > 3) in case of MISS, If old entry is present, delete the old object file and > add new object file. It should increase (or decrease) the cache size by > (size_of_new_entry - size_of_old_entry). [...] ld entry should get replaced > by new entry and should not consume space. No, that's not how ccache works. A new entry (due to a cache miss) does not replace a previous entry. See https://ccache.dev/manual/3.7.11.html#_how_ccache_works for details. By the way, you asked me more or less the same question in private mail more than two years ago (2018-02-21, subject "query on ccache miss"). See that conversation for further information. Regards, Joel _______________________________________________ ccache mailing list ccache@lists.samba.org https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/ccache