Dansguardian not really performing to expectations

Been running clear since the clarkconnect days....never seen dansguardian perform so poorly as 7.1 with dans version 2.1.7-1.
Freshly loaded test machine pretty much unusable. I only really use it for virus scanning of material, so I disable all the lists. Set it up no_cache deny all just like before since it really doesn't take much at all to outstrip read/write speed of a spinning disk. Out of the box it was so unusable I thought it was poor dns, but that is definitely not the issue. Turning off dans, and running with just the squid (restarted) usually results in strange page errors saying such and such subdirectory of the page was unavailable. Removed dans and squid and everything was perfect. Reinstalled squid and it was still perfect. Installed Dans and all is strange again. Some pages load alright, others just sit and spin for a minute or two before loading. It is just me testing it, on the exact same hardware that it had before with no issues. Just plain strange.

I'll just run it with dans uninstalled until I see something useful pop out. I'm guessing it is some sort of goofy permissions or self resolution problem.