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 This electronic transmission, and any documents attached hereto, may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. The information is intended for the sole use of the recipient named above. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify the sender and delete the electronic message. Any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of information received in error is strictly prohibited.