Hello Franco,
Happy New Year.
On Mon, Jan 1, 2001, at 04:28 PM, you wrote:
>
> Hi Chris
>
> On 01-Gen-01, you wrote:
>
> >
>
> >> Hi ,
> >>
> >> I wish to know, how much should be the right size of cache in V's
> >> preference/cache in Kb ?
> >
> > In this case, the word "preference" means just that. It's up to you to
> > reach a compromise between how much data V stores in the hope that page
> > loading can be sped up, and how much HDD space you have to spare.
> Although
> > I would imagine that at the extremes of a large cache, you might end up
> > spending more time searching for the data to load from the drive than
> just
> > downloading it again. If I had a very fast connection like cable/xDSL, I
> > might keep the cache small, as the data will come quickly from the server
> > as well as the cache, so little point in keeping a large cache.
> >
> > Hope that helps you with your decision.
> >
>
> Onestly,no.
> I recived, from list, a lot of kindly answer.
> In one, tell me to set 200-300 mb of disk cache, in other one 8192K
> (8megs).
> Which is the right one? ( i've a lot of space on disk, 56k modem, no gfx
> card, 040, OS3.0)
>
> Thanks for the answers.
>
> Regards
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Coccini Franco
>
I, too, wondered that. Here are the basic rules of thumb:
1. If you wish to review the sites you visited, while not on line;
or, if you wish frequently visited sites to load faster, then allow
as much cache as possible. The reason is that, while offline, V
will act as though the cache is the Internet, and show the site on
your screen, for further viewing (but, only those parts of the site
you originally had visited). When you go to frequently visited
sites, oftentimes there are graphics which are a staple (always
there and on the same page and the same part of the page). By
having this site as part of your cache, V does not have to spend as
much time downloading and displaying the graphics, as it di the
first time.
2. If you just care about immediate viewability, then, something
no bigger than 8 megs, is more than enough.
3. In either case, you *must* delete those files which are mean-
ingless to you, to avoid having wasted space. This would be done
between times that you delete your entire cache and start from
scratch.
4. Never, never confuse cookies with URL history. V puts the
cookies and URL history into the generic, "Cache." These are two
separate files for two separate purposes. Cookies have little or
no relevance to what I mentioned above. These can be deleted as
you like. They do help, at times, in speeding up your entry onto
sites you already visited, by that site storing your info onto your
computer, and reading it back. It is the cookie-factor which is
the security culprit, not the URL history file.
Anyway, the above is just MHO of what you might do. I hope I
have been of some help.
BTW, to answer a different of your postings. PFS3 is a commer-
cial product. The two ways to obtain it are either through a paid
download from http://www.greed.com or the CD from your local Amiga
software store. If you already have PFS2, or an earlier PFS3, and
have it registered, there is an update/upgrade you can download and
implement, from GREED. If you do do the upgrade route, be sure to
copy their command "getserial," from their disk to your "C" direc-
tory, or else the installation will not work.
Good luck.
Julian.
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