On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:55 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller < dtel...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 11/28/13 1:33 PM, Till Schneidereit wrote: > > This would all be tackled after we did other things like getting rid > > of all history entries for iframes, which won't be restored in any > > case, right? > > We're not sure about the relative priorities of this cleanup vs. > removing the history entries for dynamic iframes that cannot be > restored. That will probably depend on the results of bug 942340. > Except if it's *much* more effort to reduce the amount of stored data that's simply useless, it seems to me that it's strictly preferable to do that regardless of the telemetry results. > > > As a concrete example, I start writing my Status Board[1] entries during > > the week, and only send them off on Mondays. If we were to get rid of > > form data after some period of time, I couldn't do this anymore. Even > > worse: I might not know when exactly form data is discarded, so it'd > > *seem* to work just fine for a while, and I might invest quite some time > > in writing my update, only to lose it all of a sudden because Firefox > > decided that I don't need this data anymore. > > Good point. If we head in this direction, we definitely need to mark > that data (form, POST or DOM storage) as unneeded only if the tab hasn't > been active at all during the interval. Also, I was thinking of a time > to live of at least 1 week, but I'm willing to make it 1 month. The key > idea is to make sure that data eventually disappears, rather than > staying forever. > Maybe the size of that data could also be a factor? Removing one or a few short strings will probably not save much data, whereas removing, say, a large image from POST data most certainly will. > > > Similar scenarios can probably be thought up/occur for 4 and 5, too. > > > > As for 3, we could maybe gradually get rid of entries, oldest first. So > > it wouldn't be a hard cut-off, but a gradual loss of entries which are > > less and less likely to be of interest, anyway. > > That was the idea, yes. > Cool. > > Cheers, > David > > > -- > David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD > Performance Team, Mozilla > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
