[TriLUG] Squid proxy guidelines

[Dan Monjar]

Who here is using Squid?  I'd like to compare stats to figure out if I need 
to tune this thing some more.  For instance:

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Connection information for squid:
Number of clients accessing cache:454
Number of HTTP requests received:217911
Number of ICP messages received:0
Number of ICP messages sent:0
Number of queued ICP replies:0
Request failure ratio: 0.00
Average HTTP requests per minute since start:148.8
Average ICP messages per minute since start:0.0
Select loop called: 9105362 times, 9.653 ms avg

Cache information for squid:
Request Hit Ratios:5min: 50.5%, 60min: 40.6%
Byte Hit Ratios:5min: 21.0%, 60min: 17.3%
Request Memory Hit Ratios:5min: 10.2%, 60min: 24.7%
Request Disk Hit Ratios:5min: 6.4%, 60min: 14.2%
Storage Swap size:1887434 KB
Storage Mem size:115308 KB
Mean Object Size:9.75 KB
Requests given to unlinkd:34552
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Is a 5 minute hit ratio of 50% good or bad? Of course I'd like 100% been 
then I'd have to cache the Internet.  what type of utilization and client 
counts are you seeing?  How big is your RAM cache and disk cache?  I'm 
interested in discussing stuff like that...

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Dan Monjar