Re: [squid-users] How to check caching and performance of Squid?

> Hi there,
>
> I have been running a Squid server for 6 months or more and it seems to
> work fine. ACLs work fine, authentication, etc.
>
> However, users complain that some sites do not appear to being cached.
> It would seem that the server is retrieving the data from the various
> webservers each time instead of caching. This may seem like a silly
> question, but how to I go about checking up this?

  http://www.ircache.net/cgi-bin/cacheability.py

>
> Another question, how can I tell how well my squid is doing generally
> performance-wise? Do I need some 3rd party analyser? I'd like to perhaps
> tune squid more, but need a way of quantifying the performance.
>
> Sorry if these are real basic questions.....
>
>

    http reqs/sec; during office time , in Cachemgr - Cache Utilization
    is a good paramter to look at in performance terms.

M.
Received on Wed Mar 01 2006 - 13:30:06 MST