Re: GSD should not housekeep the thumbnails

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:30:30PM +0100, Rob Taylor wrote:
> Emmanuel Pacaud wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On mar, 2008-09-16 at 11:34 +0200, Stephane Delcroix wrote:
> >> Hey guys,
> >> The plugin does something like this:
> >> - clean the thumbnails older than MAX_AGE (default to 60 days)
> >> - clean the oldest thumbnails until the cache size is under MAX_SIZE
> >> (default to 64MB)
> > 
> > I don't get why it work like this. Why remove a thumbnail because it's
> > old ? Why would we want to limit the size of the thumbnail cache to an
> > arbitrary value ? It depends on the disk size, and it will limit itself
> > by the fact the size of the thumbnailed files is largely bigger than the
> > thumbnail size.
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be better to just remove thumbnail of files that don't exist
> > anymore ?
> 
> I guess when Philip's thumbnailer daemon is starting to get widely used,
> It could do the job of cleaning the cache. This would mean that you
> would no longer have thumbnails lying around for deleted files and it
> could also clean out thumbnails that haven't been *accessed* after a
> certain time period, which should give better performance.

More info about this here: http://live.gnome.org/ThumbnailerSpec

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Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv)
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