Rishav Upadhaya wrote:
Hello,
I am new to squid.
Under the following scenario please throw some lights.
I have a small ISP. I have around 50 clients that are basically
offices. Each clients shares internet in around 10 computers. Some
offices doesn't requires windows update while some offices doesn't
requires anti-virus updates. Similarly some offices don't want their
staff to browse sites like youtube.com.
Instead of telling them how to turn off windows update or Anitvirus
update I want to control that in server level. I thought of making
different ACL in my squid server.
Like deny if clients=xyz and site= windows update
deny if clients=abc and site= youtube.com
and so on
But my senior told me that making many ACL will hampers squid process.
So I want to know how many ACL is suitable in a single squid server.
How many ACL is safe enough so as not to hamper squid's process.
Please help.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Rishav Upadhaya
It depends entirely on what kind of acl you use. Anything with regex is
going to eat resources much more quickly than a dst or dstdomain acl.
That said, if you are only talking a total of 500 computers (50 offices
with 10 computers each) you'd have to have 1) a pretty slow server
running Squid, 2) heavy users at all of the sites AND 3) a massive
number of regex ACLs (hundreds or thousands) to notice a performance hit.
Chris
