Re: [squid-users] Evaluating SQUID performance

On 07/24/2013 10:11 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 25/07/2013 7:08 a.m., Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
>> On 07/24/2013 10:02 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>>> On 25/07/2013 1:44 a.m., Golden Shadow wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> You can show them the hits statistics you get from the cache manager
>>>> using:
>>>> squidclient mgr:info
>>>>
>>>> However, having a hit ratio of 30% let's say does not necessarily mean
>>>> that squid would save you 30% of bandwidth.
>>> On the contrary. That is exactly what "Byte HIT-ratio" means: that in
>>> the last 5 min or 60 min (whichever it appears in) it has *already*
>>> saved that much % of upstream bandwidth.
>>>
>>> Amos
>>>
>> Would squid change the expiration headers?
>> it means that IMS requests will accrue more frequently and it means that
>> the bandwidth saving is much more then most logs will show.
>
> Squid should not be, unless the refresh responded with new ones. In
> which case those new ones get passed on and if possible the existign
> cache updated (see bug #7 though).
>
> Amos
Have seen and responded.

Eliezer
Received on Wed Jul 24 2013 - 19:36:06 MDT