Re: Squid Weekly Summary Interpretation

Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
>
> I have been using Squid for roughly 5 years, perhaps a little longer. Late
> last week, a customer asked how to interpret the information presented in
> the Squid Weekly Summary.

I wasn't aware there ever has been any such function in Squid.

Smells like some kind of log file analyzer to me.

To answer the questions, we need to know what analyzer is being used.

> I have some client objects that have 60% or higher "hit" rates on their
> request counts. Can an impatient user "artificially" inflate the %hit value
> by frequently refreshing the display? Or, does this really indicate that
> the user is frequently accessing a finite set of objects that change
> infrequently?

Users have a quite hard time to accidently boost the hit rate. If they
push the reload button then they will force a cache-miss, not a hit..

Having only 60% hit ratio as the highest hit ratio when calculated on
individual objects are quite low I would say. "hot" objects should have
a quite high hit ratio, preferably some where around 95% or more.. But
then I might misunderstand what you mean by 60% or higer "hit" rates..

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker