Re: Running squid without hard disk

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:08:38 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, mohinder garg wrote:

> I am looking to make some changes in squid. As of now i think squid
> definitely needs hard disk to run.

Nope.

> I want to know if there is any way i can run it totally on RAM?

Yes. I do that in some kinds of setups.

   null type cache_dir.

   disable all logs

   a small tmpfs filesystem for the pid file, which is not required but
still nice to have for "squid -k" functionality.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Jul 26 2005 - 06:08:43 MDT

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