Ooops, I forgot to add the link to the API docs: Adrian Perez de Castro <ape...@igalia.com> writes:
> Sergio Villar Senin <svil...@igalia.com> writes: > >> En 25/02/14 20:26, Niranjan Rao escribiu: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> My understanding is 2.2.3 does not have network process. If you are >>> running multiple processes, what is the recommended way to use cache? We >>> could certainly use the benefits of cache, but scared to make it shared >>> between multiple processes because of possibility of processes stepping >>> on each other shoes. Right now, I have set it up to use process specific >>> cache. >>> >>> These processes are driven mercilessly by the driver. Chances of more >>> processes making network calls at same time are much higher and I am >>> afraid it might corrupt cache database. >> >> Not sure which cache you're talking about, but if you mean the on-disk >> http cache from libsoup, then that cache is not going to work if more >> than one process tries to use it. >> >> AFAIK, in WebKitGtk we only support multi-webprocess with network >> process enabled. > > Sergio is right: WebKitGTK+ enables the network-process when using > WEBKIT_PROCESS_MODEL_MULTIPLE_SECONDARY_PROCESSES [1] because it > is not be safe to access the on-disk cache from multiple processes > at the same time (accessing cookie jars has the same problem, too). [1] http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/unstable/WebKitWebContext.html#WebKitProcessModel > With the network-process enabled, web-processes do not directly > access the network or the on-disk cache: instead they ask the > network-process to fetch resources for them. This way only one > process is accessing the caches on-disk (the network-process). > > I hope this clarifies why the network-process is needed — and why > it is not a problem for the on-disk caches to enable it, but an > actual need. -Adrian
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