Re: Questions on 'Transfer Rate' and 'Neighbor weights'

webadm@cc.fh-lippe.de writes:

>Hi!
>
>In The cachemgr.cgi-interface is a field called 'Transfer Rate'.
>Usually i see only a 0 in this field, what is it for ?

There's a good chance that it is not used.

>Is it true that the weights-factor for neighbors (siblings) has no
>influence on Squid's behaviour ?
>
>The Release-Notes say so:
>
>Weights are only involved when all parent caches return MISS. Squid
>still fetches an object from the first parent or neighbor to reply
>with a HIT, regardless of any weight values.

Yes, we only fetch from siblings if they give us a HIT.

weights only affect parents, where we fetch the MISSes.

Duane W.
Received on Tue Aug 20 1996 - 07:33:40 MDT