Re: [TSVN] increase cache duration for network drives

Will Dean wrote:
> At 17:20 19/11/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> Increasing the duration of the cache is easy. But have you considered
>> what that means for memory consumption? I mean the longer the cache
>> exists, the more data it has to store. And for big working copies this
>> can easily go in the megabyte range.
>
>
> Are you sure about this Stefan? Of course, we have to qualify 'big',
> but I don't see that a *huge* amount of data is stored per-file, is it?
>
> Besides which, even if the user is short of RAM, he's trading very
> highly optimised local pagefile access against network traffic.

You're right. The memory increase maybe wouldn't be that much and
definitely worth doing it. But:
how would you suggest to get the event when the user presses F5? I've
tried that one before but failed. And as long as we can't get that
event, refreshing the cache can't be done easily.

Stefan

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