[Dillo-dev]configure cache size
Dear developers, thanks for dillo. As I sometimes use a more (or less) feature-rich webbrowser than dillo, I 'outsourced' the caching of web pages (to squid). In a previous Debian package of dillo, I could turn off the internal web cache with cache_size=00 in .dillo/dillorc. With version 0.8.3, I get the error dillorc:23: unexpected string constant "cache_size", expected symbol and every dillo process uses > 5 MiB of memory. What could I do to turn off (or limit) the internal cache? Was the cache_size option in the debian package an unofficial patch? I would really like to see this patch in the mainstream, as I am short on RAM here... PS: This is a re-post. I sent this mail once, before subscribing and it seems like it did not get through the moderation process. Sincerely Günter Milde -- G.Milde web.de
Hi Günter, G. Milde writes:
Dear developers,
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What could I do to turn off (or limit) the internal cache?
No, not in "vanilla" Dillo.
Was the cache_size option in the debian package an unofficial patch? I would really like to see this patch in the mainstream, as I am short on RAM here...
Yes, this is an unofficial patch. I wrote that patch in 2002-2003. Since then, my life turned upside down a few times. Right now, I'm just focusing on avoiding heart attacks from overworking ;-) Regardless, there are two relevant posts about the subject: The message explaining the internals of the patch: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1642897 The lastest version of the patch: http://lists.auriga.wearlab.de/pipermail/dillo-dev/2003-January/000073.html I think it last applied cleanly to Dillo 0.7.0 (from early 2003). Of course, I expect it to not apply cleanly at all today. However, the good part is that the entire patch was only less than 150 lines of code; it probably would take someone just a few days to reintegrate it. If anyone wants to grab this patch and update it, before you do, please make sure with Jorge if he is interested. Although _I_ feel that this patch is extremely important to Dillo, I have no idea why Jorge didn't integrate it in the first place, at the time (although, I have a hunch he was too busy, and this was not so high in his priority list...). If you have any questions, please go ahead and ask. Oh, and just for the record, there used to be a "featureful" version of the patch, which had a couple of interesting facilities (viewing the cache contents, and flushing everything from the cache). They were ripped from the newest versions of the patch, but are described here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1642897 And links to all patches are within the posts I linked here. Good luck, Livio
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 02:56:39PM -0500, Livio Soares wrote:
Hi Günter,
G. Milde writes:
Dear developers,
[...]
What could I do to turn off (or limit) the internal cache?
No, not in "vanilla" Dillo.
Was the cache_size option in the debian package an unofficial patch? I would really like to see this patch in the mainstream, as I am short on RAM here...
Yes, this is an unofficial patch. I wrote that patch in 2002-2003. Since then, my life turned upside down a few times. Right now, I'm just focusing on avoiding heart attacks from overworking ;-)
Regardless, there are two relevant posts about the subject:
The message explaining the internals of the patch: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1642897
The lastest version of the patch: http://lists.auriga.wearlab.de/pipermail/dillo-dev/2003-January/000073.html
I think it last applied cleanly to Dillo 0.7.0 (from early 2003). Of course, I expect it to not apply cleanly at all today. However, the good part is that the entire patch was only less than 150 lines of code; it probably would take someone just a few days to reintegrate it.
If anyone wants to grab this patch and update it, before you do, please make sure with Jorge if he is interested. Although _I_ feel that this patch is extremely important to Dillo, I have no idea why Jorge didn't integrate it in the first place, at the time (although, I have a hunch he was too busy, and this was not so high in his priority list...).
Hi Livio! Good to see you can respond even at peak work levels! :-) You're right on both things, it _is_ very important, and I did not have the time... Unfortunately this is not rare because I have much more work than I can handle so only the top priorities get a time slice. For instance, now, the official CVS is frozen because Sebastian and I are working with exclusive dedication to the port to FLTK. As soon as we get an interesting prototype, we'll upload the source tree so everyone can play and help with it. Of course, if there's a person with high knowledge on Dillo internals and enough time to review/integrate/QA the patches, I'm more than willing to hear from him! BTW, Livio was my perfect candidate, but he has no time now... -- Cheers Jorge.-
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:09:39AM +0100, G. Milde wrote:
Dear developers,
thanks for dillo.
:-)
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PS: This is a re-post. I sent this mail once, before subscribing and it seems like it did not get through the moderation process.
dillo-dev receives too much SPAM, so the moderation process became: if (!subscribed) reject; -- Cheers Jorge.-
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Livio Soares