[geeks] IPCop and pfSense...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
>Date: 2008/04/18 Fri PM 01:33:05 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] IPCop and pfSense...

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>One option could be to adjust a LiveCD to boot from a flash drive and
>run from a ramdisk.  This would leave less memory free for cache usage
>(or require more RAM, but I think you said you were already maxing
>that), but it would remove some of the problems of PIO mode.  For my
>project I can't do this since the video capture card I'm using is
>incompatible with 3 gigs of ram being present and I can't spare any of
>the 2 gigs installed for this use (my capture card requires the kernel
>vmalloc 384megs, and then my application requires about 1600 megs). 

FreeNAS loads it's massive 32 Meg self into RAM and runs from there, only updating/accessing the USB flash drive for updates/settings...

Lionel