Hi Rahul, > The most often recommended options for squid compilation (along with > some that is added for performance benefit) > > ============================================ > Options for SUNWsquid: > ============================================ > --enable-async-io (Enable async IO with threads - reasoning above.) > --enable-carp > --enable-htcp > --enable-cache-digests > --enable-large-cache-files > --disable-ident-lookups (slight optimization from removing ident) > --enable-time-hack (gettimeofday is used frequently for timestamps. this > option > makes the granularity 1 second (avoiding the multiple > sys-calls) giving a slight boost.) -- this is not shown in > --configure --help. but is available. > --enable-storeio="diskd,ufs,aufs,coss" Diskd is a faster cached. > (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/DiskDaemon) > and coss performs fastest for small objects (single file > cache) > > (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/CyclicObjectStorageSystem) > both works in conjunction with others. >
What about proxy authentication via LDAP? SSL options? Are these enabled by default? Along the lines of the PHP, Apache feature/module comparison tables (that were posted earlier in this mailing list), it would be useful to see a feature list of Squid comparing the other OS distributions vs the one that would be part of SFW. Thanks, Arvi
