Re: [squid-users] Response time warnings...

On Friday 09 May 2003 22.35, la. w wrote:
> Got a little confused on setting response time warnings...I think
> i meant to set 20 seconds, but set 20 ms instead :-). Anyway...I
> note alot of variation -- just for today:

A lot of variation in response time is normal. The response time of a
request depends on very many factors

 * The size of the request and reply. Large amounts of data takes
significantly longer time to transmit than small amounts of data.

 * The "distance" of the requested information. If the requested
information is on a slow or congested link then the response time
will be a lot higher than if the requested information is on fast
nearby connection.

 * Cache hit/miss. Cache hits is (or should at least) obviously faster
than misses.

And the average response time of Squid depends a lot on how much
traffic your Squid has and whant kind of requests it is seeing.

On a highly loaded Squid the response time generally averages out
well, but on a Squid with not very many users the average response
time is easily influenced by one or two very large or slow requests
due to their size or connectivity of the requested information.

Regards
Henrik

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