On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:50 +1300, Jason Haar wrote: > John Horne wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 09:17 +1300, Jason Haar wrote: > > > >> We use the open source HAVP proxy. It supports clamav, sophie, trophie, > >> and several other commercial AV products and works very well. We still > >> use it in conjunction with Squid, as it is a pure "AV proxy" and doesn't > >> have all the other "bells-and-whistles" that Squid has. We use Squid as > >> our frontends, and they are configured to use HAVP (running on the same > >> box) as parent proxies. End result: all the creamy goodness of Squid > >> plus the sanitized delightedness of clean webpages (well, mostly ;-) > >> > >> > > May I ask if this (HAVP/ClamAV/Squid) scales well? How many users are > > your web-caches supporting (do you in fact run multiple caches?), and > > does it (HAVP/ClamAV) impose any significant loading on the hardware? > > > > > > > > 3.5K users - but spread over 25+ squid servers. We're world-wide so lots > of Squid servers with only 50-300 users. > Hmm. We have 30K users, but around 4K active at any one time, on 2 boxes. Could be we need to do some testing just to see what happens :-)
Thanks for the reply. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
