For people who're not used to work with Squid, the ACL's of Squid can be very tricky. That's such a external programs can help for them.
Regarding performance: Like you said: if you 're using SMP system an external program can 'improve' the performance if you have a lot of acl's. Not on UP systems, I agree.
But I don't think most users of those external programs use this for the performance, but just because it's sometimes easier to use.
At least, that's what I think.
(I'm also using a lot of ACL's, but I'm using -of course - the squid acl's)
Bart Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Schelstraete Bart wrote:
If you have A LOT of ACL's, and you're not really familiar with Squid I think you better to use an external program for this.
Why?
If you have SMP and use a lot of regex acls then yes, at least until Squid
can scale on SMP. But for UP I cannot agree. But very large regex
performance sucks using any approach as a list of regex expresions can not be optimized much..
Regards Henrik
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