From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: where luatex cache?
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:41:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4809E872.4060501@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <573769F4-F3E9-4D15-ADA8-E708ECF235AC@science.uva.nl>
Hans van der Meer wrote:
> I have a setup with several users, one acting as system administrator,
> the others as users.
> What can be said regarding the setup of the luatex cache?
> The possibilities I see are:
> (1) central cache in the /usr/local/texlive tree;
if users share the tree, this is an option
> (2) decentralized cache per user in its local texmf tree
also ok, but more resources
> (3) decentralized cache per user in some unrelated directory
could be hard to locate in case of wanted cleanups
> (4) decentralized cache per user in /tmp (cleaned out by the system on
> restart, i think)
depends on how often you restart ...
> Can someone comment on the merits of these alternatives?
here i use c:/temp, i.e. just the global windows temp path; this has the
advantage that in case of a manual cleanup of temp files, the cashe also
get erased
btw, there is:
mtxrun --script cache
for cache managing and inspection
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-19 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-19 6:51 Hans van der Meer
2008-04-19 7:22 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-04-19 12:42 ` Hans Hagen
2008-04-19 13:05 ` Hans van der Meer
2008-04-19 12:41 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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