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Thread ID: 18624	2002-04-29 01:54:00	Temporary Internet Files, Re:robo's post	Guest (0)	Press F1

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46205	2002-04-29 01:54:00	Just a little experiment. First of all cleared out Temporary Internet Files folder. Then logged onto Press F1 and just opened one posting (robo's), then back to the main page, and closed down IE. Looked in the Temporary Internet Files properties and found 56 files. Now if you look at this very plain vanilla site, the way it used to be back in Mosaic days, it created just 8 files. <www.peregate.com Now Press F1 isn't the worst by any means as regards bells and whistles, animations, flash, pop-up, and all that sort of crap. It's no wonder that after a very short time temporary Internet Files can reach the 20,000 mark we've heard about. Just think of the effect on fragmenting, that 20,000 files shotgunned over your hard drive is going to have!	Guest (0)
46206	2002-04-29 07:48:00	That's the thing. Do we even want caching? If it is set to refresh every time you go to a page, why not turn it off? I think it does no good, really, and makes your HD behave badly. I am sure it was hurting mine. robo.	Guest (0)
46207	2002-04-30 05:12:00	The trade off is that all the buttons and little pictures each occupy the minumum cluster size of the disk, which is wasteful. If you don't cache them, they use bandwidth --- each is a file to be sent. If there are multiple pages on a site which use the same images for the buttons etc, only one download of each is needed if you cache them, and each page will load only the different stuff. Obviously, you need to compromise. If the cache is flushed frequently, that should help.	Guest (0)
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