Re: cache hit rates

Actually, you will see that as your cache handles more traffic, the hit rate
increases.
We handle 400,000 requests per 24-hour period (totalling over 2 gigabytes)
and we have a hit rate of 55%, 34% by bandwidth. (a mere 280 modems... but
2300 customers active)

# TCP-Request State Request % kByte % sec
KB/sec
----------------------------------- ------- ------ -------- ------ ---- ----

---
HIT                                  231133  52.76   810247  34.60 0.38
9.11
MISS                                 206892  47.23  1531189  65.40 5.12
1.44
>I don't know about the "perfect" hit rate, but here are some stats
>from one of my caches:
>
>Count %  Bytes %  Status
>-------  -------  ---------------
>  40.94    19.68  HIT
>That's over a 24-hour period with 535 hosts making 129082 queries.