[13886] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7T: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sara C Pickett)
Thu Sep 28 21:33:06 1995
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 21:32:55 EDT
From: Sara C Pickett <sarac@MIT.EDU>
System name: w20-575-125
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7T
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Browse the web on Netscape.
What's wrong:
It crashed ("quit with error " number something) and suddenly ate a large portion of my quota for memory.
What should have happened:
nothing
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Netscape stores "stuff" (I don't know what exactly, but it doesn't seemto be essenential, and erasing doesn't affect your history or bookmarks) in a hidden directory called .netscape-cache. There's an ajustable upper limit to how much it should cache, but if it crashes, it seems to restart its count towards that limit. Anyway after two crashes, I was suddenly up to 96% on my disk space quota, and even when I erased everything I didn't need, I could only get it down to 92%. I'm a freshman, and I didn't know how high the level should be, but I knew it shouldn't be that high. I was hovering at 92%, until today, when I discovered that if you used the ls command with the options -R -a -l, it would give you the size of all the subdirectories too. This is how I discovered that this .netscape-cache had eaten more than 90% of my quota.
I just wanted to tell you, so you'd know. (You can bet I'll keep an eye on the size of that directory.)
