Re: Bandwidth Saved?

From: Maciej Kozi\qski <maciek@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:45:15 +0200

Miles Standish Edson wrote:
>
> Is there a way to measure the bandwidth saved
> by using the cache? Do I multiply kb hit% times the
> size of the cache? Is there some other way?

Just measure your traffic _through_ the cache and _from_ the cache to
the clients - the difference is your saving... You can use scripts which
come with squid or some contributed - see
http://alex.man.torun.pl/cache-stat/ for example.
>
> I tell the higher ups that I'm saving
> on external bandwidth to the net and they ask me how much
> and I don't know...

Good luck,

MK

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           Maciej Kozinski         http://www.boa.uni.torun.pl/~maciek
Received on Mon Aug 18 1997 - 01:48:05 MDT

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