Re: [SLUG] Squid performance

["Simon Bryan" <sbryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mileage will vary according to what the users are downloading. If it is 
dynamic content then this won't cache (news sites often have a no cache 
setting). We have about 100 terminals running through Squid and get about 
30% of our hits and 20-25% of the bytes. There is also the question of how 
large a cache have you got and how much RAM available to Squid? We are 
a school site and a lot of the data that goes through Squid is dynamic in 
nature and a lot of webmail!

HTH

> What sort of cache hit rate should I expect with squid? At the moment
> (with approx. 50 users) I'm getting less than 10%. Should it be more than
> this? If so, how can I tweak the settings to get a better performance.
> 
> I do notice that on some web pages I have viewed recently it is getting
> them from the main site rather than using the local cache (even only a few
> minutes later)
> 
> 
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Simon Bryan                    sbryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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OLMC Parramatta