Re: [SQU] Tune up Squid Cache Hit

Hi Martin,

You answer is accurate !

I agree with you that "good" percentage of cache hit mean nothing, it's very
relative from a person to another person. However, I just want know what
average number. And you gave me your opinion. Thanks !

In my case, our user is extremely varieties. Even we have users that run
Internet café business. So, our access to Internet is very dynamic. As your
answer (compare to our case), I assume that increasing cache_mem and cache
size will force the objects stay longer into our Squid. Am I right?

Please advise. Thx

Best Regards,

Awie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin A. Brooks" <martin@hinterlands.org>
To: "Awie" <awie@eksadata.com>; <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [SQU] Tune up Squid Cache Hit

> At 18:33 20/02/01 +0800, Awie wrote:
> >My questions are:
> >
> >1. I assume that increasing cache mem and cache size will also improve my
> >cache hit. Am I correct?
>
> Not really, cache_hit can only be "improved" by lots more people visiting
> the same sites. Increasing the memory and diskspace means you potentially
> cache more pages but, if your users visit fairly diverse pages, this means
> that your cache hit ratio may actually decrease.
>
> >2. What is the default of percentage of "good" cache hit?
>
> This is kind of meaningless. I guess anything from 25-50% is reasonable.
>
> >3. How can I increase the cache hit? (Please don't tell me to upgrade
> >bandwidth)
>
> Force more objects to be cached longer. The downside to this is that you
> end up increasing the staleness of your cache.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Martin A. Brooks
> ------------------------------------------------------
> If Windows NT were an animal, it'd be a fainting goat.
>

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