2012/9/27 [email protected] <[email protected]>: >> Hmm, I just noticed Eliazers' reply about how reloading often is a bad >> idea and one should use ext_acls instead, > > I'd be interested to hear why reloading is a bad idea. Squid supports HUP > reloading, I've been doing it for years and on my systems it takes about > 100ms to do a reload, so even if it blocks for that amount of time it's not a > big deal. Unless the reload leaks memory or something, I don't think it's a > problem. I have an action item to move my servers to external ACLs, but it's > been one of those "if it ain't broke" type things, so I haven't done it yet. >
I don't think Eliezer meant reloading per se as much as my question which was reloading every 5 minutes. I also reload all the time when I write new configs and sometimes I even end up reloading several times in one minute without my users feeling it as far as I can tell (or at least they don't feel it enough to start sending mail saying the Internet is broken). Either way since I am still building the solution and I definitely don't want to set my delay_pools to be resetting every 5 minutes I will probably try to do most of it through external acls and only do reloading on something like a weekly basis.... Regards, Eli
