[squid-users] Squid is not caching much

I've installed Squid on OS X 10.3, I'm trying to use it to cache large
files (mainly stuff like OS updates). The problem is that according to
store.log, everything seems to be released from the cache straight
away:

1109458635.046 RELEASE -1 FFFFFFFF 5190EC019A89E3FF32D62D1693A09C7E
200 1109458630 1107797158 -1 application/octet-stream
6946727/194984 GET
http://ftp.plig.net/pub/apache/dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.53.tar.gz
1109460094.435 RELEASE -1 FFFFFFFF E2F545F6D2407B81FB35E1FF0140886F
200 1109459923 1107797158 -1 application/octet-stream
6946727/6946727 GET
http://ftp.plig.net/pub/apache/dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.53.tar.gz

This is my squid.conf:

cache_effective_user squid
cache_effective_group squid
http_port 192.168.0.81:3128
http_port 127.0.0.1:3128
cache_mgr cache@stocksy.co.uk
visible_hostname stocksy.is-a-geek.com
cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 7000 16 256
cache_swap_low 90
cache_swap_high 95
maximum_object_size 2097152 KB
cache_mem 32 MB
refresh_pattern -i \.gz$ 4320 100% 43200 reload-into-ims
override-expire override-lastmod ignore-reload
refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
cache_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log
cache_access_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log
cache_store_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/store.log
logfile_rotate 4
acl All src 0/0
acl Manager proto cache_object
acl Localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
acl Safe_ports port 80 21 443 563 70 210 280 488 591 777 1025-65535
acl SSL_ports port 443 563
acl CONNECT method CONNECT
acl SpruceWayNetwork src 192.168.0.0/24
http_access allow Manager Localhost
http_access deny Manager
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access allow SpruceWayNetwork
http_access deny All

I googled for similar problems, the only solutions I found were that
the cache wasn't writable (I did 'chown -R squid:squid
/usr/local/squid') or that the cache_swap_low was higher than
cache_swap_high (which it isn't). I also increased the
maximum_object_size to 2097152 KB.

Many thanks,
James Stocks.
Received on Sun Feb 27 2005 - 02:18:35 MST