Please add option to clear cache files automatically

[Kartik Mistry]

Pasting Debian bug here. See: http://bugs.debian.org/544467 for more information.

Package: gwibber
Version: 1.2.0+bzr355-2

Hi,

I have been using gwibber for a few weeks (I think more or less since you have
announced the packages on your blog).

I use it with my Twitter account, and follow the public timeline.

I have just noticed Gwibber cache folder contains more than 120,000 pictures!

$:~/.cache/gwibber/images$ find -type f | wc -l
122489
$:~/.cache/gwibber/images$ du -sh
547M .

It seems these are thumbnails from the public timeline.
Maybe Gwibber could remove older pictures automatically? A config option with a
maximum age and/or total size should be perfect.

Thanks.

[Josh Bressers (josh-bress)]

This bug ended up causing me some disk corruption when I removed the 400K files in my cache (I've found ext4 can be flaky under high loads when you remove lots of little files)

Here is a patch that will cap the cache around 2 megs. For me this ends up being around 3.7 megs of real disk usage, and about 800 files.

The patch isn't perfect, and could use a configuration option to control the amount used. I'm treating this as more of a prototype.

It applies cleanly against the version of gwibber in Fedora 12 (gwibber-1.2.0-3.349bzr.fc12.noarch)

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Gwibber has changed considerably since 1.2, it no longer caches image previews. It does however cache avatars, but the code path is rather different and the avatars are very small.