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 1024 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 1024 filedescriptors.