Re: Pre-fetching some URLs

From: Kirk Friggstad <kirk@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:51:36 -0600

> > By the way, what is the typical hit rate that you might
> > be getting ? I am getting around 40% rate hit and for
> > some of the people that I speak to, they said it is
> > pretty high.
>
> We're running a 900MB cache here. We peak at around a 25% hit-rate.
> We further try to improve things by having each subnet hub (we have
> nine subnet hubs connected to the central hub, which has the central
> proxy) also running a squid cache on whatever amount of disk-space
> they can spare. I imagine they are getting 'similar' hit-rates, and
> thus our overall percentage will actually be a bit higher.

We're running 850MB cache, with a usual hit-rate in the 30% to 34%
range, no parent, child, or sibling caches (yet). I found that it
helps to play around with the TTL (time-to-live) settings for various
file and protocol types.

40% - must be nice... :=]

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Received on Tue Oct 22 1996 - 11:51:42 MDT

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