[geeks] faster www cache

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Fri Sep 8 08:55:31 CDT 2006


>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2006/09/07 Thu PM 08:31:29 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] faster www cache

>As it turns out, my browser disk cache was 50MB.  I set it to 1 MB
>several times, but today I check and it has reset again.

Interesting tid-bit: Internet Explorer tracks cache size by amount of data in a file, not the disk space the file occupies. A "50 Meg" cache, for example, can occupy hundreds of megs of actual disk space (for example, cookies of a hundred bytes or so occupy up to 4096 bytes of disk space)...



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