Package: wnpp Owner: Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> Severity: wishlist
* Package name : unburden-home-dir Version : none yet (just a git repo) Upstream Author : Axel Beckert <beck...@phys.ethz.ch> (me at work :-) * URL or Web page : http://wiki.phys.ethz.ch/readme/application_cache_files * License : GPLv2+ Description : Remove or move cache files automatically from user's home unburden_home_dir is an Xsession hook which allows administrators and optionally also users to move cache files from browsers, etc. off their home directory, i.e. on a local harddisk or tmpfs and replace them with a symbolic link to the new location (e.g. on /tmp/ or /scratch/) upon login. Optionally the contents of the directories and files can be removed instead of moved. This is helpful in at least two cases: One case are big workstation setups where $HOME is on NFS and all those caches put an unnecessary burden (hence the name) on the file server since caching over NFS doesn't have the best performance and may clog the NFS server unnecessarily, too. The other case are devices with small disk space but a lot of RAM as seen often on boxes with flash disks or early netbooks, especially the EeePC, where configurations with 4GB disk space and 2GB RAM are not seldom. In this case you want to move off cache files, etc. to some tmpfs filesystem, e.g. /tmp/. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101031224808.73addb80...@sym.noone.org
