[squid-users] Refresh Pattern useless?

> I'm beginning to conclude that refresh pattern in Squid is useless.
> I had a neat refresh pattern which is supposed to help cache just
> about everything, below:
>
> refresh_pattern
> ([^.]+\.)?(download|(windows)?update)\.(microsoft\.)?com/.*\.(cab|exe|msi|msp|psf)
> 4320 100% 43200 override-expire reload-into-ims ignore-reload
> ignore-no-cache ignore-private ignore-auth ignore-no-store
> refresh_pattern
> ([^.]+.|)(download|adcdownload).(apple.|)com/.*\.(pkg|dmg) 4320 100%
> 43200 override-expire reload-into-ims ignore-reload ignore-no-cache
> ignore-private ignore-auth ignore-no-store
> refresh_pattern ([^.]+.|)avg.com/.*\.(bin) 4320 100% 43200
> reload-into-ims
> refresh_pattern ([^.]+.|)spywareblaster.net/.*\.(dtb) 4320 100% 64800
> reload-into-ims
> refresh_pattern ([^.]+.|)symantecliveupdate.com/.*\.(zip|exe) 43200
> 100% 43200 reload-into-ims
> refresh_pattern ([^.]+.|)avast.com/.*\.(vpu|vpaa) 4320 100% 43200
> reload-into-ims
> refresh_pattern
> (avgate|avira).*(idx|gz)$ 1440 999999%
> 10080 ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-reload reload-into-ims
> refresh_pattern
> kaspersky.*\.avc$ 1440 999999%
> 10080 ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-reload reload-into-ims
> refresh_pattern -i \.(gif|png|jpg|jpeg|ico)$ 10080 90% 43200
> override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private
> refresh_pattern -i \.(iso|avi|wav|mp3|mp4|mpeg|swf|flv|x-flv)$ 43200
> 90% 432000 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private
> refresh_pattern -i
> \.(deb|rpm|exe|zip|tar|tgz|ram|rar|bin|ppt|doc|tiff)$ 10080 90% 43200
> override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private
> refresh_pattern -i \.index.(html|htm)$ 0 40% 10080
> refresh_pattern -i \.(html|htm|css|js)$ 1440 40% 40320
>
> ----
>
> And it barely cached any of the content it's supposed to. I never once
> saw "TCP_HIT" in the logs.
> And it seems like when I removed these refresh patterns (leaving the
> defaults), I finally saw TCP_HIT's in the log file...
> So is refresh pattern useless? Or am I just doing this wrong??!!
>
> I want to be able to cache Windows Updates, Apple Updates and possibly
> Linux Repositories as well (without some other fancy program for
> that). I also want to be able to cache various Anti-Virus vendors
> sites, so updating virus signatures are a lot faster. And to be able
> to cache generic content such as images, media files and software.
>
> I want to be able to do this all in Squid... But it seems useless....
>
> Unless someone else has other suggestions? The only thing I'm seeing
> TCP_HIT's on is video content, as I'm using VideoCache. But this isn't
> enough... I want just about everything to be cached. My proxy server
> is a dedicated proxy system with 1 TB of hard drive space for caching.
>
> My squid configuration can be viewed here: http://pastebin.com/XW5yZmvk
Received on Thu Nov 29 2012 - 00:31:20 MST