"Anil Madhavapeddy" <anil@recoil.org> wrote:
>herbert farmer wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone really expect an external ICAP server to
> > perform well enough to handle tasks as resource intensive as
> > content filtering??
>
>Read the spec ... that's exactly the point of iCAP - to vector
>resource-intensive tasks to a separate server farm. If you have 10,000
>concurrent requests and one of them has to be virus-scanned, why impact
>the other 9,999 requests by hogging CPU doing this? Instead, pay the
>cost of a TCP connection and have external farms do the hard work, and
>keep your cache simple.
>
On the other hand, if you have 10,000 concurrent requests, and you
need to check EVERY ONE of them to see if the request should be
allowed or not, a TCP connection and ICAP request exchange seems just
a bit excessive for the processing of a simple boolean allow/deny
facility.
Does squid have any hooks for such things?? Where should I go
looking??
Thanks in advance,
herbert farmer
hffarmer@hotmail.com
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Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 23:57:07 MDT
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