> At 08:02 AM 07/11/2002, Rick Matthews wrote: > > > >Couldn't you accomplish this using the built-in "iplist [filename]"? > >(see <http://www.squidguard.org/config/#Sourcegroups>) > >
[WiZKiD]wrote: > Not really, in essance yes, but you need to SIGHUP squid for it > to take effect. > > This is because SquidGuard loads all DB files into RAM on loading, > and then doesn't re-load them until its restarted. It might be more correct to say that squidGuard only reads the DB files and configuration files at startup. The file used in "iplist [filename]" is never more that a flat file; it is not converted into a db file. It might be splitting hairs, but I wouldn't want anyone to make a decision about using squidGuard based on assumptions about the amount of memory required. For example, my active destination db files add up to over 10 megabytes, and one might think that if squidGuard "loads all DB files into RAM" it would use 10 megabytes plus the size of the program in memory. In reality, yet each instance of squidGuard that is running has only allocated 6.2 megabytes of memory. Rick
