Re: Unbelieveable hit rate! Please help me!

Hello

Try adding more memory than 12Mb - SQUID loves it memory and I think
(someone else can verify this) that if its low on the memory, then
time outs will occur and the squid server will timeout and pass the
request direct to the site hence causing low hit rates

adam

> Hello,
> I'm runing Squid 1.1.14 as a transparent proxy/cache server on a Linux
> box.
> I have about 16 dial-up lines and 20 LAN users. I don't know why my
> Squid hit
> ratio is too low (request: 6%; bytes: 3%). So, I would appreciate are
> any
> recommendation so as I could improve the hit rate please send mail to
> ttminh@hotmail.com.
> Thanks.
> Squid proxy configuration:
>
> Hardware: Compaq Proliant 1500
> 32 MB RAM
> 2 GB Hardisk (900 MB for cache)
> Network card: 3C509
>
> Software: Linux kernel version 2.0.0
> Squid 1.1.14
> Ip firewall (for transparent proxing)
>
> Squid.conf files (attached to this message)
>
> Statistic report:
>
>
> Squid Proxy
> Period covered by these statistics: 4 days (09 Jan 1998 - 12 Jan 1998)
>
> Total requests handled this day: 676,568
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Requests Satisfied by the cache: 35,155
> Requests Proxied 641,413
> Total number of requests served: 676,568 ***
> Bytes sent for cache requests: 115,646,762
> Bytes sent for proxy requests: 3,930,598,126
> Total number of bytes sent: 4,046,244,888 ***
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Cache Hit Rate
> Requests: 5.20%
> Bytes: 2.86%
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Number of Mb sent by this server: 3858.80
> Number of hosts using this server: 51
> Number of unique requests: 0
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Average number of requests/day: 13,808
> Average number of requests/hour: 829.13
> Average number of requests/minute: 13.82
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Changes since last summary period:
> In total requests to this server: 5%
> In total bytes sent by this server: 6%
> In number of hosts accessing the server: 0%
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hosts accessing this server, ordered by number of accesses:
> Top Ten Hosts:
> Host Accessing the Server : accesses : bytes transferred
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 203.162.7.80 : 81,615 : 545,417,130
> 203.162.7.81 : 72,679 : 425,242,850
> 203.162.7.83 : 68,143 : 379,197,927
> 203.162.7.82 : 61,902 : 310,391,570
> 203.162.7.87 : 37,848 : 278,092,374
> 203.160.0.11 : 31,971 : 207,392,305
> 203.162.7.89 : 30,500 : 212,469,172
> 203.162.7.73 : 30,415 : 166,690,881
> - : 28,025 : 19,617,500
> 203.162.7.74 : 26,379 : 123,348,484
> List of hosts accessing the server (more than 25 times).
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Remote sites accessed by this server, ordered by number of accesses:
> Top Ten Sites:
> Site Accessed by the Server : accesses : bytes transferred
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> home.netscape.com : 20,659 : 134,967,165
> 207.82.250.251 : 19,696 : 75,750,806
> 209.1.112.251 : 18,651 : 15,138,902
> ad.doubleclick.net : 17,925 : 20,029,920
> www.cnn.com : 13,122 : 81,229,021
> www.microsoft.com : 8,486 : 39,057,289
> 203.162.7.79 : 8,154 : 11,626,126
> 127.0.0.1 : 6,980 : 5,483,358
> cnn.com : 6,186 : 40,932,406
> www.yahoo.com : 5,798 : 27,679,246
> List of all sites accessed by the Server
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> These usage statistics produced by pwebstats.
>
>
>
>
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Received on Mon Jan 12 1998 - 12:57:15 MST