I've been using the disc cache on RISC OS 2.19, ARMini, and I seem to have found some downsides to it, and I wonder if (a) I'm doing it correctly and (b) if it's worth the occasional faster opening of some sites.
If I load, for instance, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ as the first site of a session, it loads maybe a little faster, but then I get intermittent hourglass activity for sometimes up to thirty seconds, during which I can't do anything else. There are several other sites, for instance Wikipedia home page, which do the same. And the next day the same happens. Looking in !Cache, which is in !Boot.!Resources, I find that in the Caches.Default.NetSurf directory there are currently 1933 files, totalling 22449384 bytes. Is this to be expected, as I don't use NetSurf a huge amount? I've already excluded this directory from my daily backup, which has been taking a lot longer since I started using !Cache. Best wishes, Peter. -- Peter Young (zfc W) and family Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk [email protected]
