RE: [squid-users] Startup fails

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Ambroso [mailto:BAmbroso@whittierch.org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 11:20 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] Startup fails
>
>
> It is a url_regex acl.and calls a file stored locally that is
> about 7mb. How then do I use this list of banned sites to
> control access without the use of url_regex?

url_regex can be very cpu intensive, especially for long lists.

You will get better performance from dst or dstdomain acls.

>
> Thanks for any and all replies..
>
> \Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Robertson [mailto:crobertson@gci.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:44 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] Startup fails
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Ambroso [mailto:BAmbroso@whittierch.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:46 AM
> > To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> > Subject: [squid-users] Startup fails
> >
> >
> > I have a basic squid install and I added an acl that uses a list of
> > banned sites. The list is quite comprehensive (say 7mb) and
> when squid
> > tries to start it chugs along then fails with kerneL out of memory..
> >
> > The machine I am using is a PII with 384 megs of ram. When
> I use top I
> > can see that while it is starting squid will use most of the ram
> > (289-369 mb's of ram) till it fails... Without the text
> file it start
> > up no problem.. I created the list using MS notepad (not
> sure if that
> > is what is causing the problem but thought I would throw it out
> > there..) I
> > have tweaked some of the default settings without any luck.
> >
> > \Bob
> >
> > Bob Ambroso
> > Whittier Public Library
> > 7344 S. Washington Ave
> > Whittier, CA 90602
> > (562) 464-3452
>
> What does kind of ACL are you using to call this file?
> "url_regex" (or indeed anything involving regex) would be
> very bad in this case.
>
> Chris
>
>

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