Re: [squid-users] squid mean service times

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, khiz code wrote:

> going thru he docs the squid access times esentially indicate the
> time that a transaction busied the cache i.e times(socket accept)
> - time(socket close) to this number if i add the latency period
> between the client and squid machine . will the sum roughly give
> me the response time for http as experienced by the end user
> client???

Depends what you mean by "roughly". Just adding client-cache RTT does
not account for things like TCP handshakes (several extra RTTs),
persistent connections, packet loss, buffering, bandwidth limits, etc.

Alex.
Received on Wed Oct 17 2001 - 08:18:00 MDT