On December 15, 2004 09:00 am, roliver wrote: > I use scavr with squid for a school district with great success. > Neither Dansguardian or Safesquid can handle very heavy loads in my > experience.
Depends which version of DansGuardian you are using, and you're definition of "heavy load". We're running DG 2.4 on P3 866 MHz systems with 512 MB RAM, serving high schools with up to 250 student computers online at once. Most sites have 2 Mbit cable connections, one has a 4 Mbit wireless connection. The servers are running FreeBSD 4.10, and the load rarely hits 5.0, swap usage generally stays below 10%, and none of the students have ever complained about slow connections. Others on the DG lists have shown server configs that support 1000s of simultaneous connections using DG 2.6 (with fork pooling) and 2.8, without problems. It really depends on the hardware you use, and the time you put into configuring things. DG 1.x, 2.0, and 2.2 did have problems with heavy usage and could easily bring a dual-proc system with oodles of RAM to its knees. But those issues have been fixed. Adding in ClamAV scanning to the mix does slow things down a bit as the proxy now needs to download the file, then scan it, then send it to the client. Depending on the DG+ClamAV setup, this can cause all kinds of timeout issues. The ClamAV patch developers have come up with a few different solutions to this. The main one, sending a small trickle of data to the client while it scans the file, does make it seems like your connection is super slow. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
