Re: Squid vs Browser cache

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Subba Rao wrote:

> I set the Browser's (Netscape) to 0, but it looks like Squid is not
> cacheing. The ppp0 interface, shows inbound traffic each time I visit
> a site. This is not the first time I am going to that site. I go to
> the site back and forth to test, and ppp0 shows inbound traffic.

What do your logs say? These are the authorative source on whether Squid
is in fact caching (which it will be doing unless you have explicitly told
it not to).

> What flags in Squid.conf, should I look for? How do I configure squid
> to update the DB every 15 minutes instead of every hour?

I don't know what you mean by 'update the DB' - Squid does object
replacement checking much more frequently than every hour. You don't need
to configure this part of Squid's internal operations at all.

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