As a suggesstion, I would say that if you want to have a large list of banned sites, you really should use squidguard (http://www.squidguard.org). It's far faster and uses squid's built in redirector interface.
Cheers, --Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "SSCR Internet Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 11:22 AM Subject: [squid-users] Latency I just wanted to know if having a big list banned site on = "/etc/squid/banned_site" will actually contribute to internet sluggish = or network latency. I have a top result with PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 9548 nobody 15 0 271M 271M 1304 R 0.7 35.9 0:10 squid I have a swap with a 999999K used, and i have a Pentium 4, memory of = 750MB with 40GB of SCSI harddisk and a 1gb ethernet. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 1/27/2003