Re: [squid-users] Squid configuration and response times

dbaldoni@iinet.net.au wrote:

> Apparently, a general rule of thumb is to use the (Page Faults with
> physical I/O) / (Number of incoming HTTP requests received) ratio; both

Best measured as a delta

  Increase in page faults / increase in HTTP requests

taken during peak usage, or measured during the day each X minutes and
plotted...

> Any thoughts on what I should be looking at to provide the system owners
> with an accurate performance measure?

The above, combined with latency information, all plotted in nice
graphs. See MRTG and/or rrdtool for nice graph generators..

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker