A near hit is a validated cache miss - the object was stale, but squid  
did a Get with If-Modified-Since to the origin and received a 304 Not  
Modified, which resets the refresh timer on the object.  You'll see  
these as TCP_REFRESH_HIT in the access log.
-C
On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:18 AM, J. Peng wrote:
> this is the info from my squidclient's output.
>
> Median Service Times (seconds)  5 min    60 min:
>        HTTP Requests (All):   0.00000  0.00000
>        Cache Misses:          0.02592  0.02592
>        Cache Hits:            0.00000  0.00000
>        Near Hits:             0.03622  0.05331
>        Not-Modified Replies:  0.00000  0.00000
>        DNS Lookups:           0.00000  0.00000
>        ICP Queries:           0.00000  0.00000
>
>
>
> what's Near Hits in the info? thanks.
>
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