ccache's cleanup algorithm

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 3 13:47:47 UTC 2015


Hi,

+--On 3 novembre 2015 07:26:46 -0600 Scott Bennett <bennett at sdf.org> wrote:
|      In ccache's cleanup.c module, the comments say that files are deleted
| from the cache on a LRU basis.  However, the code refers to mtime, not
| atime, so it appears that ccache is, in reality, using a Least Recently
| *Modified* basis upon which to expire files from the cache.  Is that
| really what ccache does?  Or did I miss something?  If it's really using
| LRM instead of LRU, can anyone explain why?

ccache is not a freebsd project, it's a samba project:

https://ccache.samba.org/

I'm sure they have a mailing list where you can ask your questions.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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