Steve Snyder wrote: > > The disk caching in Mozilla (at least in versions 0.9.2 - 0.9.7) is > unreliable in my experience. > > On a Linux box (RedHat v7.2 /w 2.4.1x kernel) I download the SRPMS package > from Mozilla's FTP site, then build and install the binaries. > > When I set a disk cache limit in Preferences I find that Moz slowly builds > up that much data in the cache. Then the amount of data in the cache > plummets and never regains the amount of data specified for caching. New > objects are cached (you can tell by the timestamps on the cache objects) > but the total amount of data never again exceeds ~4MB. > > If I go into Preferences and clear the disk cache, then erase the remaining > _CACHE_* files from the cache directory, then all is well - temporarily. > The amount of data builds back up to the size I specified, then the problem > repeats itself. Once again the amount of data cached drops, never to > regain the specified maximum. > > I've tried maximums of 16MB, 32MB and even 64MB. Thinking the problem > might be some sort of boundry condition, I've tried odd (non power of 2) > maximums. No difference in behavior. > > Has anyone else seen this?
I've not seen the size thing (never thought to look), but the cache is known to serve up expired pages (CNN would give me week-old news until I hit 'refresh'). Have you noticed anything like that? The two could conceivably be related I guess.
