Re: Squid is becoming slow with 3000 ACL's ...

From: Gero J. Dittmer <Gero.Dittmer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 16:21:07 +0200

>Dear Squid users,
>
>A colleague of my is using ACL's to block a number of domains/Web-sites
>(3000 in total) for his school cache.. This cache (Squid v1.1.20 and
>Squid 1.2beta21) is becoming very slow (respons-times over 5 seconds)..
>It looks like Squid is sequentially examening these ACL's..
>
>Is Squid v1.2-beta24pl1 better able handling these relative large number
>of ACL's?? Or is a patch available to get a Btree search of these ACL's..
>

Check that squid is using the GNU regex shipped with the source. I found
Linux regex packages causing delays and failures.

Regards, Gero

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