Re: [squid-users] "Efficiency" of around 10%, is that normal

On 18.09.06 13:21, Bas Rijniersce wrote:
> I was used to getting efficiencies of around 50%. My current setup does
> not get past 10% as reported by Calamaris. There are around 40 people
> behind the proxy. After Googling around I added the following lines to
> squid.conf:
>
> cache_mem 256 MB
> maximum_object_size 32 MB
> maximum_object_size_in_memory 128 KB
>
> System has 512Mb of memory and very little other tasks. Is there
> anything else I can do to improve efficieny?

what are sizes of your cache_dirs? what replacement policy do you use?
heap GSDF or LFUDA policies help improve hit/byte ratios. But you needed
enough of disk space to cache.

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