----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Mullen" <squid@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:32 PM Subject: squid -> squidGuard: Redirect_children best practice? > Hey folks, > > I'm finding people with different opinions talking about the redirect_children > option from within squid. > > One is to set it to something like 5, so that you have plenty of ability to > answer ( like apache? ) and the second is to limit squidGuard children to have > an equal amount of processes as CPU's in the box. > > I've got a company with ~500 employees that this will be blocking with a > fairly large blacklist. My big concern to this is time from post to proxy. > With multiple processes starting it seems to dramatically build the time up it > needs to get to full start. > > Thoughts? Are you "pre-compiling" your domainlists and urllists into *.db files by doing: squidGuard -C all ?? If not that will greatly speed up the start-up time when there are many squidguard processes starting up. How are you blocking with https:// URLs?? I find blocked https:// URLs just cause a messy can't access http:443 message when they are blocked. Have you found any way to tidy that up?? -- Brian Gregory. brian.gregory05@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Computer Room Volunteer. Therapy Centre. Prospect Park Hospital.
