Re: [squid-users] Squid super slow with large block files

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Laurent Evrard wrote:

> the larger the blocking file, the higher the CPU usage: Each request to
> Squid has to parse this file, resulting in high CPU usage;

Only if you have made an extremly poor choice of acl type.. i.e. using
url_regex where you should have been using dstdomain and other more
structured acls.

> I suggest you
> employ generic words instead of maintaining hundreds of thousands of
> sites!! Using generic words when possible shall result in lower CPU
> usage.

Or the opposite if this word list requires the use of regex based acls
where one could do with non-regex acls when specifying the complete list.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Oct 25 2004 - 14:02:32 MDT