[Bug 79943] it should be possible to limit the amount of disk space used by thumbnails (.thumbnails directory)

[john smeed]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79943





--- Comment #93 from john smeed <jrsmeed xtra co nz>  2012-01-04 20:57:19 ---
(In reply to comment #92)
> The name of the files, the cache or (to an extent) it's location is out of
> scope of this bug, which is to do with the cache growing without limit until
> the disk is full.
> Changing the name convention wouldn't solve this more serious problem, only
> help in (automate) clean ups.

You have missed the main point of my comment that is, if thumbnails are used an
extremely large number of files is created, all of which reside in the
thumbnail directory. This creates the same problem that windows has with its
central registry, bloat. Using zipped files to store thumbnails will reduce the
number of entries in the thumbnail directory, and will save space and should
enable faster indexing. If there was no central thumbnail directory and a
zipped thumbnail file resided in each indexed directory this would not, be seen
a problem. I agree that changing the storage convention alone will not solve
the problem, however I feel it is a vital first step, that makes cleanup
possible.
All programs that need to load huge directories, have problems, either slow
loading, or worse crash. Most programs cannot allocate enough memory for a
directory as big as that of a large thumbnail directory. This is probably why
cleanup has not been attempted. Generating thumbnails on the fly is slow but
might be faster than finding thumbnails in a bloated thumbnail directory.

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