Squid benefit (bandwidth savings)

Hi all:

I've been running squid for almost a year now, and am just not sure
how much its helping in the saving bandwidth to our upstream.

Currently running 2.3stable2 on FreeBSD, Intel PIII-600MHz, 768Meg,
2 x 9.1Gig, & 1 4.2Gig (SCSI) drives for cache.
Caching for 700-800 Dial ports.

Looking at MRTG stats for traffic to/from our squid box...
The traffic coming in to the squid box is almost the same as the
traffic going out of the box (to our clients)

Rather than attach a image from our MRTG, I'll include a link to
a sample 5 min graph from MRTG here.
http://www.odyssey.on.ca/squid.gif

Not sure if I'm expecting too much from squid, but I would have
expected there to be a greater diff in incoming vs outgoing
traffic.
Is it possible I just don't have enough HD storage for cache dirs?

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Received on Tue Mar 28 2000 - 18:53:49 MST