Re: [squid-users] External acl efficiency: text file/MySql lookup

On Saturday 02 August 2003 11.04, Chris Wilcox wrote:

> My basic question is: for a text file or DB with around 1500
> lines/rows, would there be any major performance difference between
> the use of text files compared to holding the same data in a MySql
> database? The server this would run on would be dedicated to
> running Squid and would be specced something like:

The external acl interface is very performance forgiving. The results
of the helpers are aggressively cached by Squid. The speed of the
helper mostly matters for the latency of the first request from the
user, then the information is already known by Squid on following
requests.

Regards
Henrik

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