Re: [squid-users] Domain & URL blacklists

Paul Cocker wrote:
> Is there any existing information on the number of entries squid can
> handle before you start running into problems. Am I right in assuming
> this is mainly processor dependent?

CPU and RAM limited. It's stored in a splay tree so the limits are
rather high and dwarfed by the cache index in most cases.
I would expect high hundreds of thousands somewhere. Under 26MB list per
100K domains, with an N(log-2) access.

Amos

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> Paul Cocker
> IT Systems Administrator
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Robertson [mailto:crobertson@gci.net]
> Sent: 01 November 2007 22:13
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Domain & URL blacklists
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> Paul Cocker wrote:
>> My bad, in fact from further analysis it seems that the domain files
>> are the mysite.com listings and URLs are things like
>> mysite.com/something/?somethingelse.htm. Does the later have any
>> relevance or use within Squid?
>>
>> Paul Cocker
>> IT Systems Administrator
>>
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> The first would be best to use a dstdomain acl, the latter requires a
> url_regex acl. Just be ready to step in and remove the url_regex if it
> causes performance issues.
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> Chris
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Received on Sun Nov 04 2007 - 23:11:50 MST