[TriLUG] Squid proxy guidelines

[Jeremy Portzer]

<newbie question>
How did you get that list of stats?
</newbie question>

I run squid but there are only a few clients so I probably don't have
very good performance.

Jeremy

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 12:33, Dan Monjar wrote:
> 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:
> 
> -------
> 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
> ----------
> 
> 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...
> 
> -- 
> Dan Monjar
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