[squid-users] Man, I have really come to despise Squid.

[NgTech LTD]

Hey Dave,

I can try to help you, however, there are to many unknowns in your
situation to understand what to recommend in your case.
I would start with what linux Distribution you are using in your setup.
Also, it's important to understand if you are using a VM or a container.
Another aspect is, what is your actual use case?
What do you mean by POS? Point Of Sale?
Did you self compiled Squid or used a packaged version?
What is your "squid -v" output?

>From my experience I can recommend on a specific distribution for specific
use cases.
These days I can say that it's very easy to use RedHat based OS ie Rocky or
Alma, however, it's much easier to install Alpine linux (currently 3.23)
and on top of it squid.
For most use cases and for most ease of management I am recommending RedHat
based and not Debian based.
>From my eyes RedHat based OSes are more professional then many others,
however, for a more advanced Linux admins Alpine would be pretty easy to
handle for specific tasks.

Please feel to contact me on and off list.

Yours,
----
Eliezer Croitoru
+972-528704261
ngtech1ltd at gmail.com



On Thu, Dec 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM Dave Blanchard <dave at killthe.net> wrote:

> I was using Apache Trafficserver before switching to Squid because at the
> time it didn't have a certain feature. Otherwise it worked fine. Worked
> better in fact, as it didn't have a 3 second startup delay, require
> patching in order to enable fast exit/restart behavior, didn't flip out if
> the internet connection momentarily went down, etc.
>
> Squid on the other hand is the most irritating, fiddly POS, just like most
> other crapware in the Linux world is, starting with the kernel itself.
> (There is a reason Linus refused to take charge over the whole Linux
> ecosystem--because he has no clue how to design a proper user interface.
> See git, the kernel menuconfig, etc.)
>
> Just went to start up Squid again for the first time im a while, and guess
> what, now the POS is giving "permission denied" trying to open the pthread
> library. Funny how no other application on the entire system has a problem
> with this.
>
> I sincerely regret the time I invested in tweaking and adjusting this
> Squid configuration. Should I spend hours trying to figuring out this
> latest idiotic bug, or just go back to Trafficserver? I think you know the
> answer. Goodbye Squid, and good riddance.
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