Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid only caches a few images and TCP_Miss everything else

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:54:11 -0700 (PDT)
"jc.yin" <jc.yin.cn_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> So how would I know if squid is really caching and then serving
> contents instead of the browser? Does this mean that, between Squid's
> own cache in RAM as well as the browser's own cache, there wouldn't
> be much content saved to Squid's disk cache?
>

If your browser allready has something cached it might have no reason
to fetch it from the squid, however, if something made it into your
browsers cache, and it passed through your squid, its probably allready
been deposited into your squid cache anyway. One of the things you
could do to test this is to do image searches on google.

Load about 10 full sized LARGE images directly from the actual pages
they are hosted on, then clear your browsers cache, and revisit the same
images, you'll see them bursting from your squid cache and loading
lightning fast. As opposed to when they originally had to download, its
a crude manner of testing, but a visual test you can immediately
appreciate.

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Signed,
Fix Nichols
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