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by a.c. on Sunday 17/Jun/2007, @21:15

I hope that KDE will at least create a cache API and make it possible to slip in caches via a quick configure. In particular, I see the icon cache and of course there is the html cache. It would be nice to skip all that, and have something like squid serve the needs. Yes, I know that icon cache is meant for local caching, but it seems that a small generic cache that interacts with squid (or other network cache) would be great for schools, departmental servers, businesses, etc. KDE can use more networking.

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Re: Caches
by Aaron Seigo on Sunday 17/Jun/2007, @23:55

the point of the icon cache is to speed things up. throwing them on a machine somewhere on the network seems ... counter productive.

squid helps with web browsing because it caches remote content on a system that is closer to the destination (you). integrating the icon cache with something like squid would be doing exactly the opposite, and therefore have exactly the opposite effect (e.g. slow things down).

additionally, the sort of on-disk strategies used by web cache apps are not necessarily the greatest for other work loads such as icons due to differences in access patterns. so even if squid was running locally it probably wouldn't be the best idea.

direct access to a shared local file that is tuned for icon access patterns is going to be hard to beat. and i'm really not sure what benefits a network cache would have.

i can see sharing cache files on a system serving x clients over the network (e.g. thin client setups) could be nice for disk space and disk cache friendliness ... but that's also local (to the app) and not on the network.

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