RE: Squidguard vs Dansguardian
Heya,
> I have decided it's a good option) and started with squidGuard.
> The problem with that is that as soon as it starts, it consumes 100%
> of all resources (CPU and disk thrash like crazy) making the system
> unresponsive and eventually requiring a reboot just to be able to log into
> the console.
Squid + SquidGuard, Friday lunchtime userbase of approx 150.
moonraker:/var/log/squid# uptime
13:03:43 up 307 days, 23:50, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> Does anyone have experience of SquidGuard running on Debian
> (fully patched, stable Woody system) - if so, what are the gotcha's
regarding
> performance etc.
Fully up to date Woody box, but I backported my squid from testing I think
it was - at the time we were considering integrated auth for all our clients
(windows). In the end we just let everybody have access out and ditched the
integreated auth, never rolled back squid to the version in woody though (if
it ain't broke...)
Relevant dpkg output:
hi squid 2.5.1-4 Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache)
ii squidguard 1.2.0-1 filter, redirector and access controller
plu
That said, I never had an issue running the stock version of squid +
squidguard initially.
> The system it's running on is:
>
> Compaq Presario 850r Dual Pentium Pro 200;
> 512mb Ram;
> 18gb SCSI Disc.
Our (dedicated) squid box has about half that ram and is roughly a 400Mhz
pentium thingy.
A single much larger drive, but not using much of it.
> The squid cache (/var/spool/squid) is on a seperate physical disc,
> everything else is just a partition on the 1st SCSI disc.
>
> I am using the blacklist from DansGuardian site, it's quite large but
> comprehensive.
Our blacklists dir totals to about 24MB - I'd suggest that squidGuard rather
than squid could be your problem.
Have the blacklists converted into dbm format?
Regards,
Mark.
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