Re: [squid-users] How to check caching and performance of Squid?

tor 2006-03-02 klockan 09:20 +1300 skrev D & E Radel:

> However, users complain that some sites do not appear to being cached.
> It would seem that the server is retrieving the data from the various
> webservers each time instead of caching. This may seem like a silly
> question, but how to I go about checking up this?

access.log, and the cacehability check engine (linked from the squid
homepage).

> Another question, how can I tell how well my squid is doing generally
> performance-wise? Do I need some 3rd party analyser? I'd like to perhaps
> tune squid more, but need a way of quantifying the performance.

log analysis and cachemgr details.

also plotting service times etc using mrtg/rrdtool is quite useful for
answering this question.

Regards
Henrik