How to limit cache?

[AGI-chandler]

Service Worker/CacheStorage is taking up 2.0 GB, is this really necessary?  Is there a way to limit this usage to anything less?  Thanks

[IsmaelMartinez]

You might be able to limit the cache using one of the command line options from electron:

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/command-line-switches#--disk-cache-sizesize

See if that one does the trick.

[AGI-chandler]

Thanks!  Although, upon closer inspection, the cache I was looking at was ~/.cache/Microsoft/Teams/Service Worker/CacheStorage and actually from Microsoft's abandoned Linux version of Teams, which I uninstalled a while ago.  The teams-for-linux Cache is at ~/.config/teams-for-linux/Partitions/teams-4-linux/Service Worker/CacheStorage and only using ~270 MB, but I just started using it.

I usually just use the Icon to launch teams, which I found is generated from /usr/share/applications/teams-for-linux.desktop and I found my local repo for these at ~/.local/share/applications.  So I copied it to there and updated: Exec=/opt/teams-for-linux/teams-for-linux --disk-cache-size=200000000 %U.  But, when I went to start it, now two icons for Teams!  So I also changed: Name=My Teams for Linux and now I can distinguish it.

It seems there's other caches besides Service Worker/CacheStorage including: Code Cache and just Cache.  The --disk-cache-size option seems to only affect the Cache which was reduced to under 200 MB, but the other caches have not been reduced.

I searched electronjs.org for other mentions of "cache" but didn't see other command line options, it looked like there's a bunch of functions that could be called, not sure if those are related but not sure how to run those anyway without modifying and rebuilding t-4-l.  Any other ideas?  Maybe I should inquire with Electron support or something?  I found these caches all over the place too!  Everyone's using Electron these days it seems... MS Edge, Slack, Chrome, Chromium, ...

[IsmaelMartinez]

yeah, electron is everywhere...