Re: Stats with calamaris.

From: Dancer <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 23:06:46 +1000

David J N Begley wrote:
>
> On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, bill@nordnet.fr wrote:
>
> > When we analyse logs file from squid box with calamaris,
> > we obtain this :
> [...]
> > But when looking at mrtg (The Multi Router Traffic Grapher), the gain
> > is only 5% between in/out traffic on the squid box's port.
> > why this difference between the hit ratio and the analyze
> > of the traffic ?
>
> Without addressing specific numbers, remember when doing these comparisons
> that Squid is measuring object data sizes but network-level devices
> (Ethernet interfaces, switches, routers, &c.) are measuring everything,
> including headers, retransmits, &c. - not all of which relate to object
> sizes (and thus saved bytes per object).

Indeed. Differing MTU-path sizes are going to make a difference too..

D

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