181633 - cannot open url when no more drive space is available and disk cache size is not exceeded

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 158279

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[Stephan Slabihoud (:slabbi)]

Prerequisite:
Drive with less free memory than defined in Preferences->Advanced->Cache->Disk Cache

Bug is reproducible:
Memory Cache: 4096
Disk Cache: 8192
Harddisk has 1GB, about 6MB left for Mozilla disk cache
Browse websites until no more disk space is available.
Enter new URL, for example: www.domain.tld/folder/page.htm
Mozilla gives following alert: "Cannot open /folder/page.htm"

Correct behaviour should be:
- clear older cache entries to allow further browsing
or
- do not cache new data on disk (use memory cache instead)
and/or
- warn use once about low harddisk space "available disk space lower than
defined cache size in preferences"

Comment 1

[Stephan Slabihoud (:slabbi)]

Sorry I forget:
Tested with Mozilla 1.2a and 1.2b
Not tested with nightly build
on a Windows 95 machine (with FAT16 partitions)

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

duping to a dupe.
follow the dupe path to find the currently open bug :-)


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158279 ***