performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

[Alex Zbyslaw]

RW wrote:

>On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:31:08 +0000
>Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>I have zero experience of squid beyond reading about it, but it has 
>>always sounded like a major resource hog.  
>>    
>>
>
>It depends how you use it. I think you can probably get it down to
>about 15 MB, if you eliminate memory caching and use a modest disk
>cache. Squid needs to store per object metadata in memory, about
>10-20MB per GB of disk cache, and that's what leads to very large
>memory use.
>
Thanks for the info.  That doesn't seem too bad in relation to a small 
network, but I can see why a large network might want to dedicate a 
separate host.

--Alex