#3 Automated cache clearing/aging

[Rob Leachman]

Needs a good (point-and-click? cron?) method to clear
the picture cache. Must be a common scenerio -- make a
new album, tell others, they visit for awhile... as
new album pages are added, the old ones stop being
visited.

Should be a convienent way to reclaim the disk space;
bonus points if the admin user can do this from the
admin tool?

Could keep going, add some sort of bar graphs for disk
usage... heh.

[Alessandro Vernet]

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In my experience, the cache tends to be use much smaller
amount of disk space than the original pictures themselves.
If you combine that with the fact that generating the
pictures in the cache (i.e. converting) is very resource
intensive process, I don't think that you really want to
expire anything in the cache. Or perhaps only after a very
very long time. So I am not sure that this is feature that
we really need. Or at least not a high priority one.

But we definitly want the admin to have more control over
this cache. See 462100 that I just added.