Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:57, Johannes Wiedersich
<johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
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> Kelly Clowers wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:09:27PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>>> That shouldn't be there in the first place. You end up with hundreds
>>> of megabytes of totally useless thumbnails
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>> They are not useless, they keep thumbnail display times reasonable.
>> I have used programs that generate thumbnails on the fly, per session
>> and it is slow and annoying.
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> YMMV, but on my system I don't see a significant speed gain with or
> without thumbnails. I just deleted some 700MB of thumbnails and I guess
> it just takes about the same time to regenerate the thumbnail as it had
> taken to find and display the right thumbnails from out of that large
> archive (it took some 3-5 min to rm -rf it, and I am sorry I didn't
> count their number beforehand).
>
> FWIW I tested with gthumb.
I can barely see a difference in gthumb, but it is very noticeable
konqueror.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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