Re: Blacklistupdate.pl temp directory.

On 2012-02-02 23:01, David W Studeman wrote:
> I highly recommend that the directory that the blacklists are downloaded
> to and remain while the databases are built is /tmp since that one is
> TMPFS on all IPCop installations thus running the database building in
> ram. Otherwise on flash installations it thrashes the flash drive for 45
> minutes. In TMPFS the same work can be done in a few minutes and then
> copied to /var. One IPCop 1.4.21 running URLfilter, I found making that
> change to be absolutely necessary on flash installs.
>
> Suggested is to change line 35 from: my $target =
> "/var/ipcop/proxy/download";
> To: my $target = "/tmp";
>
> I reiterate that there is no compelling reason to build the db files on
> a hard drive.

tmpfs may not be large enough.

We'll need to set minimum requirements for URL filter, from what I have 
seen so far disksize needs to be 2 GiB for harddisk type installation 
and 1 GiB for flash installation.
Memory size needs to be looked into.


Olaf

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