Is it possible to set pi-hole's cache to tmp in tmpfs?

Hi!

Is it possible to set pi-hole's cache to tmp in tmpfs?

I want set path to /tmp on "tmpfs" but I don't know how.

What Pi-Hole cache file are you referring to?

I've set in: /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pi-hole.conf

cache-size=100000

I'd like it if there was a way in pi-hole to change the CACHE-path to tmpfs.

Kind of:
cache-path=/tmp

Is there a way to set cache-path in pi-hole to TMPfs?

This is of no benefit. Even with the default cache size of 10,000, you will likely never have a full cache. The cache information is retrieved with the following command and the example output is from a Pi-Hole that serves 21 clients (many of them IOT with repeated DNS queries).

echo ">cacheinfo" | nc 127.0.0.1 4711
cache-size: 10000
cache-live-freed: 0
cache-inserted: 9578

See the thread referenced below for details.

The cache is in memory and is not written to disk. There is no file to redirect to tmp or tmpfs.

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ok, thanks for that info! :slight_smile:

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