Re: [squid-users] some questions concerning cache_mem, L1, L2,...

alp wrote:

> if i look into the cache-manager(btw: great tool): under "general runtime
> information" there are some informations about the cache:
> a) hit rate, memory hit rate, disk hit rate.
> i would think that hit rate = memory + disk hit rate, but it isn't. why
> not?

The memory/disk hit rate is percentages of the hitrate.

> what is the memory hit rate? is it the hit rate of the hot objects hold by
> squid (via cache_mem) or the hit rate of the operating system???

cache_mem.

> b) what is the storage mem size??? is it the used amount of memory specified
> by cache_mem in squid.conf???

how much data is currently stored in cache_mem.

> c) what is the difference between in-memory and in- transit objects? (in
> transit objects are objects just requested, are in-memory objects the hot
> objects???)

No difference to Squid.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Feb 03 2003 - 02:50:29 MST