RE: Now: IPCop and CF.... WAS ADVERT: linitx.com

["Des Gibbons" <des@xxxxxxx>]

Putting the cache on the CF card will dramatically reduce the life of
the
card!

Use a Ramdisk as Patrick (iirc) suggested!

Cheers, Des.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Fautley [mailto:jon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 20:22
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Now: IPCop and CF.... WAS ADVERT: linitx.com
>
>
>
> > Guys,
> >
> > Anyone any experience of running IPCop off a Compact Flash?
> >
> > The reason I ask is that I'm about to move from Smoothie to IPCop
(for
> > all the reasons you might imagine), but have been making use
of
> > Smoothies transparent proxy server.
> >
> > Transparent proxy server + CF doesn't feel like a good
combination to
> > me? Comments?
>
> Never done it myself, but we did look into this when i worked for
my
> previous company... the issue would be with having enough storage
space on
> the CF card. on a 64Mb card, there isn't going to be a lot of space
left,
> after logfiles/base install/etc for a webproxy. Smoothie's default
cache
> size is 50Mb, as iirc is IPCop's...
>
> Alright in theory, as you could limit the cache size to the size of
the
> avaliable space on the CF card... BUT... it's not a 'hard limit' on
cache
> size, it's only checked every 15 mins, and cleared if it's too big
:/
>
> Any other Q's, ask away or catch me on IRC,
>
> Jon
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