[squid-users] Is an ACL read from memory or disk?

[Erick Perez - Quadrian Enterprises]

Hi,
I'm running squid with only allowed domains in
acl allow_domains dstdomain "/etc/squid/allow_domains.txt"

question: Does squid reads the file at startup/reload and checks the ACL in
memory?
or is there a disk read for every time the ACL needs to be checked?
If there's a disk read, will it benefit if I use a small RAM disk?

squid is compiled with:
[root at s03-prxy squid]# squid --version
Squid Cache: Version 4.8
Service Name: squid

This binary uses OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 2017. For legal restrictions
on distribution see https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html

configure options:  '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu'
'--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr'
'--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin'
'--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include'
'--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec'
'--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--exec_prefix=/usr'
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib64/squid' '--localstatedir=/var'
'--datadir=/usr/share/squid' '--sysconfdir=/etc/squid'
'--with-logdir=/var/log/squid' '--with-pidfile=/var/run/squid.pid'
'--disable-dependency-tracking' '--enable-follow-x-forwarded-for'
'--enable-auth'
'--enable-auth-basic=DB,LDAP,NCSA,NIS,PAM,POP3,RADIUS,SASL,SMB,getpwnam,fake'
'--enable-auth-ntlm=fake' '--enable-auth-digest=file,LDAP,eDirectory'
'--enable-auth-negotiate=kerberos,wrapper'
'--enable-external-acl-helpers=wbinfo_group,kerberos_ldap_group,LDAP_group,delayer,file_userip,SQL_session,unix_group,session,time_quota'
'--enable-cache-digests' '--enable-cachemgr-hostname=localhost'
'--enable-delay-pools' '--enable-epoll' '--enable-icap-client'
'--enable-ident-lookups' '--enable-linux-netfilter'
'--enable-removal-policies=heap,lru' '--enable-snmp'
'--enable-storeio=aufs,diskd,ufs,rock' '--enable-wccpv2' '--enable-esi'
'--enable-security-cert-generators' '--enable-security-cert-validators'
'--enable-icmp' '--with-aio' '--with-default-user=squid'
'--with-filedescriptors=16384' '--with-dl' '--with-openssl'
'--enable-ssl-crtd' '--with-pthreads' '--with-included-ltdl'
'--disable-arch-native' '--without-nettle'
'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu'
'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
-fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches
-m64 -mtune=generic' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro ' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic
-fPIC' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig'
--enable-ltdl-convenience
[root at s03-prxy squid]#

Thanks!

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Erick Perez
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