From f7f95ae731e0b845758daf0a92f0aa033fcd6a5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marian Beermann <public@enkore.de>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 02:01:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] RepositoryCache: don't cache large objects

avoids excessive cache repository disk usage
---
 borg/remote.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/borg/remote.py b/borg/remote.py
index 6848784f1..5662a8dbc 100644
--- a/borg/remote.py
+++ b/borg/remote.py
@@ -414,6 +414,9 @@ class RepositoryCache(RepositoryNoCache):
 
     Caches Repository GET operations using a local temporary Repository.
     """
+    # maximum object size that will be cached, 64 kiB.
+    THRESHOLD = 2**16
+
     def __init__(self, repository):
         super().__init__(repository)
         tmppath = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='borg-tmp')
@@ -434,7 +437,8 @@ class RepositoryCache(RepositoryNoCache):
             except Repository.ObjectNotFound:
                 for key_, data in repository_iterator:
                     if key_ == key:
-                        self.caching_repo.put(key, data)
+                        if len(data) <= self.THRESHOLD:
+                            self.caching_repo.put(key, data)
                         yield data
                         break
         # Consume any pending requests