Re: KDE 4.4.3 upgrade eats 141 MB of /home
On Thursday 13 May 2010, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 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.
If stat updates the files' atime, you may get a lot better performance by
simply mounting the relevant partition with relatime or noatime (which for
some reason is still not default).
Mvh
Allan
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