Re: [squid-users] -- Squid, SquidGuard and selective filtering
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Schelstraete Bart wrote: If you have A LOT of ACL's, and you're not really familiar with Squid I think you better to use an external program for this. Why? If you have SMP and use a lot of regex acls then yes, at least until Squid can scale on SMP. But for UP I cannot agree. But very large regex performance sucks using any approach as a list of regex expresions can not be optimized much.. Regards Henrik
Re: [squid-users] -- Squid, SquidGuard and selective filtering
Henrik, For people who're not used to work with Squid, the ACL's of Squid can be very tricky. That's such a external programs can help for them. Regarding performance: Like you said: if you 're using SMP system an external program can 'improve' the performance if you have a lot of acl's. Not on UP systems, I agree. But I don't think most users of those external programs use this for the performance, but just because it's sometimes easier to use. At least, that's what I think. (I'm also using a lot of ACL's, but I'm using -of course - the squid acl's) Bart Henrik Nordstrom wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Schelstraete Bart wrote: If you have A LOT of ACL's, and you're not really familiar with Squid I think you better to use an external program for this. Why? If you have SMP and use a lot of regex acls then yes, at least until Squid can scale on SMP. But for UP I cannot agree. But very large regex performance sucks using any approach as a list of regex expresions can not be optimized much.. Regards Henrik -- You can find me on Google or Yahoo... search for Schelstraete Bart or Bart Schelstraete Schelstraete Bart http://www.hansbeke.com email: bart at schelstraete.org
Re: [squid-users] -- Squid, SquidGuard and selective filtering
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Schelstraete Bart wrote: For people who're not used to work with Squid, the ACL's of Squid can be very tricky. To this I agree. And I would very much welcome if someone was interested in developing a better ACL syntax for Squid which is easier to configure. Either as a preprocessor (which is easy to do with Squid-3) or built-in. If interested please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I understand the current syntax very well and it is sufficiently simple to not be a support burden in my commercial Squid support agreements. Because of this I do not have any pressing needs to implement another syntax other than maybe to try to reduce the number of mailing list answers sending people to the Squid FAQ.. Sorry for being selfish guys, but I am. That's such a external programs can help for them. Maybe. But I don't think most users of those external programs use this for the performance, but just because it's sometimes easier to use. At least, that's what I think. Not my experience. Most people I have got in touch with using SquidGuard do so thinking it is faster than Squid ACLs. But there quite likely is users of both kinds. Regards Henrik
Re: [squid-users] -- Squid, SquidGuard and selective filtering
On 04/09/2004-11:36AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: Note: I would seriously recommend looking into using the Squid ACLs instead of SquidGuard for filtering.. I thought squidGuard existed because loading a huge list of URLs into Squid ACLs was inefficient? Has this changed?
Re: [squid-users] -- Squid, SquidGuard and selective filtering
Christopher, If you have A LOT of ACL's, and you're not really familiar with Squid I think you better to use an external program for this. rgrds, Bart Christopher Weimann wrote: On 04/09/2004-11:36AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: Note: I would seriously recommend looking into using the Squid ACLs instead of SquidGuard for filtering.. I thought squidGuard existed because loading a huge list of URLs into Squid ACLs was inefficient? Has this changed? -- You can find me on Google or Yahoo... search for Schelstraete Bart or Bart Schelstraete Schelstraete Bart http://www.hansbeke.com email: bart at schelstraete.org
