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by robocat 4768 days ago
Not sure if this is valid but:

User Bapabooiee:

Well, you guys are in luck (BTW, great work-around, Xenofon), since Chrome now has two startup switches that you can use:

--disk-cache-dir and --disk-cache-size

Simply close Chrome, right-click your Chrome shortcut, click Properties, and then in the field labeled "Target:", make it look something like this:

"...chrome.exe" --disk-cache-dir="CACHE_DIR" --disk-cache-size=N

Where 'CACHE_DIR' is the new cache location, and 'N' is the cache size limit, in bytes.

Use whichever switch you need, or both. Keep in mind, however, that these features may not be completely stable yet. But you probably shouldn't have any problem with using them.

And to anyone who's interested, I caught gander of the existence of these switches directly from a source code file for Chrome. See here:

http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_s...

Hope this helps!

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Thanks! I'm trying it now. The caching directives work. Hopefully this will fix the performance issues I've been seeing with Chrome the past two months.

The issues I'm talking about are constant disk access and freezing the entire machine when I open multiple tabs simultaneously.