Description:

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients, supporting
FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional caching software, Squid
handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps
meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups,
supports non-blocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed
requests.

Squid consists of a main server program squid, a Domain Name System lookup
program (dnsserver), a program for retrieving FTP data (ftpget), and some
management and client tools.

Install squid if you need a proxy caching server.

This package defaults to a maximum of 8192 filedescriptors. You
can change these values at build time by using for example:

--define 'maxfiles 4096'

The package was built to support a maximum of 8192 filedescriptors.

You can build squid with some conditional build swithes;

(ie. use with rpm --rebuild):
--with[out] test Initiate the test suite