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naveednajam / Little-Snitch---Rule-Groups

This repo provide rule groups for Little Snitch based on unified host list to block ads, malware, fake news and porn
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No 10.000 rules limit anymore #7

Closed gemmmai closed 4 years ago

gemmmai commented 5 years ago

It's not necessary to split up the rules for Little Snitch anymore. You can pack all 60.000 (and even a lot more) of them conveniently in one file.

naveednajam commented 5 years ago

can you provide a reference for maximum limit? At the time of writing this script max limit per rule group was 10,000.

gemmmai commented 5 years ago

Actually, it's introduced in nightly 4.3 (5222) and hides behind this:

Increased the maximum number of server names allowed in a rule group.

The lates nightly (5256) works quite well with around 100.000 rules on my Air mid 2011 with 4GB ram, where I am subscribed to your combined list in one file (roughly 60.000 rules).

Possibly you might want to wait until it's properly released, but it would be a great improvement to have one subscription instead of six.. so you could already add it with a warning to only use it with the latest nightly.

naveednajam commented 5 years ago

Thanks for sharing your experience and update. it's great the there are huge improvement are coming to handling large number of rule in LS with better memory and cpu management. I will wait until 4.3 is available as stable release. then I will update the script to V1.3 for single lsrule file.

kaznovac commented 5 years ago

4.3 is out and they claim to support up to 200_000 rules https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/releasenotes.html#5246-other

naveednajam commented 5 years ago

I have updated the script to V1.3 which will generate single file for each group rule. However I notice that loading the rules will single files still cause performance issue with Little snitch rules manager. I still feel adding multiple files with 10,000 rule limit is better. Any feed back is appreciated. Also any suggestion are most welcome.

josh1703658784 commented 5 years ago

@naveednajam It would be nice to keep both versions (single file and multiple files). I haven't noticed any new performance issues with Little Snitch Configuration when adding the new single file myself (coming from the previous multi-file solution).

It can be a little laggy but that was a problem long before I subscribed to this.

naveednajam commented 5 years ago

Agree, I will continue to update both version multi file and single file. both will update on weekly schedule

naveednajam commented 4 years ago

@joshuaks @kaznovac @gemmmai Hi check out the RuleGroupsV2. I have. I wrote the scripts from the ground up to make the rule groups more manageable and easier to subscribe. As many sources in stevenblack hosts repo are not updating I explored few more sources and also open to suggestion.