Re: Acceptable HIT/MISS ratios

On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Duane Wessels wrote:

> ben@webnet.com.au writes:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I was curious to know what most people thought was an acceptable HIT/MISS
> >ratio for the average cache. My server has around 27% HIT/70% MISS.
> >Is this what I can expect from general Internet users plus some smaller
> >ISP's hanging off our backbone?

Out of curiosity, is there a report on byte count hit/miss? With
many sites useing SSI | server parsed html the web pages themselves
tend not to get cached but all of the associated gifs could. On
many web pages this represents 95+% of the bytes transfered to
display the page.

Jim Doherty
Received on Thu Aug 21 1997 - 07:45:31 MDT