Aggressive cache storage size (multiple GB/min)

[PatMyron]

From chrome://settings/content/all, this stores more data in ~10min than a decade of heavy web browsing combined

For context, popular browsers surprisingly now default to allowing individual origins to use most of a device's storage: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10988569/storage-limits-on-chrome-browser

Hopefully there are ideas to mitigate this without rearchitecting an old project too much:

1) Compress cache 2) Limit max cache size 3) Purge old cached data based on rounds or time or site/browser closing 4) Warn users 5) etc.

[adam-lynch]

Thanks @PatMyron. I'll need to dig into it.

This might sound rude, I am not trying to be, but does this cause any "real" issue or is it just that you noticed it?

From a quick look, it looks like it's images. That means it depends on how many different "areas" you've played with. This could be service-worker related too.

[PatMyron]

Still surprised by platform defaults, but it used almost a fifth of my Macbook storage for years before realizing

Not sure if it'd eventually purged that cache if I'd run out of storage space? I try to precede that, and Chrome's cache isn't visible from Mac's storage management app

[adam-lynch]

See https://web.dev/articles/storage-for-the-web#eviction