Re: SKYCACHE

Matt Buford wrote:
>
> What you have to understand about Skycache is that it completely corrupts
> your hit count. It presents itself as a client to the cache, requesting
> many pages. These requests from the skycache box are counted as client
> requests in your statistics (unless you specifically remove them), thus any
> indication of hit ratio is false. The only way to get true indication of
> how much it helps would be to grep out all the skycache activity from the
> logs, then run a report on what is left.
>
> Many people seem to set up skycache then they look in their cache manager
> for the hit rate, which is completely corrupted from the skycache feed
> process...
>

SkyCache provides you with a perl reporting tool to qualify the
effectiveness
of their feed (i.e. percentage of requests which ended as HITs because
they
were previously fed via satellite) as well as a patch to squid to
compensate
for misleading hit rate infos (see ftp.skycache.com).

Hitrate obviously highly depends on your setup. For us, it's quite worth
it.

Markus