Re: KDE 4.4.3 upgrade eats 141 MB of /home
Mike Kasick wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:51:23PM +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
>
>> I think that disk usage is an issue in most software, not just KDE apps.
>> For example, look at ~/.thumbnails, and you will see that is probably
>> filled with many thumbnails of images that you deleted long ago or that
>> you saw just once. Same thing for apps that store some data about all
>> files that you open, without limit and without expiration.
>
> I purge .thumbnails occasionally for this reason. I also wasn't happy to
> see my /var/tmp/kdecache-* grow to 400 MBish either, so I regularly purge
> that now on apt-get upgrades. Most recently I saw .xsession-errors grow
> to ~600 MB in just under a few days, so I've /dev/nulled that too except
> for when I need it.
As a KDE4.3 user with 1TB of disk, I'm way more annoyed at
kio_http_cache_cleaner starting regularly and eating my computer's I/O than
the HTTP cache growing big. I can easily notice when the the cache cleaner
is running from the HD light, the HD noise, and the general system lag.
There *has* to be a better way to clean an HTTP cache than to stat every
single file in the cache to then delete a tiny fraction of them. Someone
told me 4.4 improved in this area, but I don't know specifics, and remain
skeptical.
--
Nicolas
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