On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:16:38PM +0200, Lars Lindner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:45:48PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>...
> >> Obviously, if I mark an item, it's already displayed, which you are
> >> telling me means that it's already in the cache. What does the last
> >> line mean, then?
> >
> > Let me make an example:
> > - cache limit 30 items for a feed
> > - 30 items are already cached
> > - the oldest cached item is marked
> > - a feed update brings 20 new items
> >
> > Usually, the oldest 20 cached items would now be dropped from the cache.
> >
> > But since the oldest item is marked, this item will not be dropped.
>
> This is a correct description, but this is IMO
> no a sane use case. Why do you set such a small
> number of cached items?
>...
I even have valid use cases for low numbers in some of my feeds, but
that's unrelated to what I wanted to explain.
Replace the two occurences of "30 items" with "1000 items" and the
number is no longer small, but the situation I wanted to show here
stays the same.
> Best Regards,
> Lars
cu
Adrian
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