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From: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 45327@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#45327] [PATCH] git: Periodically delete least-recently-used cached checkouts.
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:16:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mty8mukp.fsf@yamatai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eejk8u8u.fsf@gnu.org>

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Hi,
>
> Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I noticed that my ~/.cache/guix/checkouts directory had accumulated
>>> a lot of cruft from channels, playing with ‘--with-branch’ and such,
>>> and that it would be nice to clean it up once in a while.
>>>
>>> This is what this patch does.  It uses the (guix cache) default
>>> strategy, which consists in deleting least-recently-used items by
>>> looking at their atime.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> How does it behave when the cache is on a file system mounted with the
>> 'noatime' option?
>
> I guess the worst that could happen is that checkouts are removed too
> frequently (because the atime is not updated), meaning that users find
> themselves making full clones more often than we’d like.
>
> Perhaps we could use the mtime instead, since when checkouts are
> updated, the mtime is presumably updated too.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ludo’.

I guess either using mtime or making Guix update the atime when using
a cached checkout would work.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-20 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-19 22:06 [bug#45327] [PATCH] git: Periodically delete least-recently-used cached checkouts Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-20 10:46 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2020-12-20 13:47   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-20 14:16     ` Guillaume Le Vaillant [this message]
2020-12-21 10:26 ` zimoun
2020-12-22 13:33   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-22 15:19     ` zimoun
2021-01-07  9:39       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-07 10:09       ` [bug#45327] [PATCH v2] " Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-07 12:40         ` zimoun
2021-01-13 15:47           ` bug#45327: [PATCH] " Ludovic Courtès

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