RE: [squid-users] squidGuard slows squid

Thanx, this are some of the answers to your questions.

OS: Redhat 8.0, 256 Mb RAM.

SquidGuard: 1.2.0 Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB
4.0.14: (November 18, 2001)

Squid Cache: Version 2.4.STABLE7

client_http.requests = 6.698333/sec

Still xpecting your help.
Thanx

--- Elsen Marc <elsen@imec.be> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Pls help,
> > i applied a domain list (of about 6mb) from
> > urlblacklist.com to squidGuard, but i disacovered
> it
> > slows down the browsing speed drastically.
> > But i seriousely need this black list to block
> porn
> > sites on my network.
> > Does anybody pls have an idea of what i can do?
> > Thanx
>
> - Which version of squid are you using ?
> - On which platform/os/version ?
> - Which version of squidGuard are you using ?
>
> - What's your average induced squid load during
> office hours in terms of http reqs/sec ?
> - How many redirector processes are you using ?
> - Does cache.log have any error info related to
> the usage
> of redirectors ?
>
> Some feedback : my domain .db formatted file is
> about 6Mb.
> I am currently blocking about 120000 domains.
> This for an 'company businesses interested ' :-)
> user community of
> about 1500 users , resulting to an average load of
> 40 http req'/sec during office hours and a cache
> access
> rate of 15Gb each day.
>
> I have 10 redirector squidGuard redirector
> processes, and in
> cachemgr I can see that the 'avg service time' for
> the redirector
> process is 3ms.
>
> Meaning that in my case the overhead of squidGuard
> is 'peanuts'.
>
> What are your figures in this and the discussed
> context ?
>
> It would be interesting to compare.
>
> M.
>
>
>

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Received on Sat Mar 06 2004 - 11:46:22 MST