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// Background, I typed it out then realised it's unneccesary and boring
I'm looking into replacing my current router, as this one has started crashing, I reckon on average about once a day, sometimes more. This started since I moved from a single to multiple public IPs, and so I'm theoreticising that the problem is due to the lack of memory and it filling up. I've decided that I'm not going to touch SOHO kit again, since this is the 2nd router I've had now with the exact same problem. Thus I plan/hope to build a Mini-ITX IPCop system.
I'm just thinking it through first, and my priority is silence and efficiency. Thus I don't want to use a hard disk and so instead am looking at using Compact Flash. I'm aware that compact flash is of course slower, and I also think I heard somewhere that it's unhealthy for flash memory to be read/written to many times.
// Actual question
If I was using IPCop, I would want to make use of the Squid Cache. However, I wouldn't want it to be using the disk as a cache and instead would prefer it to create a cache in RAM, since this would avoid risking damaging the CF card, and would presumably give much faster access times. Assuming it wouldn't cause any software problems I don't care that the cache would be lost in a power cut. My question is this; is it possible to set IPCop to store the cache in RAM not on disk?
Thanks, null
I'm looking into replacing my current router, as this one has started crashing, I reckon on average about once a day, sometimes more. This started since I moved from a single to multiple public IPs, and so I'm theoreticising that the problem is due to the lack of memory and it filling up. I've decided that I'm not going to touch SOHO kit again, since this is the 2nd router I've had now with the exact same problem. Thus I plan/hope to build a Mini-ITX IPCop system.
I'm just thinking it through first, and my priority is silence and efficiency. Thus I don't want to use a hard disk and so instead am looking at using Compact Flash. I'm aware that compact flash is of course slower, and I also think I heard somewhere that it's unhealthy for flash memory to be read/written to many times.
// Actual question
If I was using IPCop, I would want to make use of the Squid Cache. However, I wouldn't want it to be using the disk as a cache and instead would prefer it to create a cache in RAM, since this would avoid risking damaging the CF card, and would presumably give much faster access times. Assuming it wouldn't cause any software problems I don't care that the cache would be lost in a power cut. My question is this; is it possible to set IPCop to store the cache in RAM not on disk?
Thanks, null
(Never tried Squid)