On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:59:25PM +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
[A meaningful reply to a question]
> And no Marc, SquidGuard is not faster for such lists than Squid when
> used correctly, in fact using SquidGuard is a great deal slower except
> for startup time (squid is missing the "db" functionality of SquidGuard
> and have to parse the whole list on each startup/reconfigure). But
> SquidGuard is considerably easier to configure.
I installed SquidGuard and so far I like it. I find that its
redirection/rewriting syntax, a separate log of site blocking, and
splitting domains, urls, and regexes makes it easier to manage
blacklist and whitelists. However, if it is "a great deal slower"
than squid without SquidGuard it would be counter productive for me.
Is it slower? Why is it slower? Is it always slower or does it depend
on circumstances. Intuitively, I would think a database lookup would
be quicker than sequential llist processing. As squidguard allows for
prebuilding the databases I would think it would be quicker still.
-- Josh Kuperman josh@saratoga.lib.ny.usReceived on Wed Feb 12 2003 - 09:17:50 MST
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