[squid-users] RE: efficient IP ACLs

From: Adam Aube <aaube01@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:07:19 -0400

Michael Pophal wrote:

> I assumed, it is a matter of ACL number. I can have 10 ACLs or 1 ACL in
> the squid. But I don't know, how squid does handle this internally, so
> you may be right and it doesn't matter anyway.

> Sure, I want to permit only the allowed IPs on the proxy, but it is also
> a matter of performance. We have about 7600 IP ACLs, which could be
> reduced by compacting them to lager subnets.

In an absolute sense, reducing the number of acls will improve Squid
performance (as well as making your config files easier to read). In
reality, Squid normally bottlenecks on disk I/O well before anything else.

Adam
Received on Tue May 18 2004 - 09:06:09 MDT

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