How to limit Chromium browser's cache size

[ralphy]

Typing the following address in Chromium's address bar used to show the page with all kinds of statistics (including the new cache size limit), but all what I can get in Chromium v64 is mostly a blank page, so it is impossible to verify that the new size limit is in place:

Code:

chrome://net-internals/#httpCache
# or
chrome://net-internals/#httpCache page

I do not have an answer for this. You actually reminded me to research the subject. Ever since the more advanced "Simple Cache" was implemented I don't know how to see the dir-cache-size in Chromium from within the browser. What I did at the time back then was to set a very small disk-cache-size=5MB and a temp dir-cache-size, browsed the web for a little while and then check the size of the dir-cache-size. Not optimal at all.

Since I happen to be the only user in my computer, I use tmpfs with a 55MB limit for my browsing anyways (I set the disk-cache-size flag in chromium too obviously):

Code:

sudo nano /etc/fstab
...
tmpfs   /home/ralphy/.cache/chromium   tmpfs   noatime,nodev,nosuid,size=55M   0   0
...

... which keeps my cache dir in check anyways and in memory too.

Irrespective, chromium's disk_cache_size flag works and it is applied as expected. I just don't know how to check it in the browser itself anymore.