Objects hitting too low

Dear friends:

We're using SQUID-1.1.4 on our caching server, but we are seeing that
our rate of objects hitting is too low. In fact, despite we have
accessed today few hours ago some objects / servers, now our server
return HIT_MISS diagnostic messages.

We think that we need to use different refresh_pattern values, but we
don't understand how to do this. We have already seen the
Release-Notes-1.1.txt. There any other parameters that we need to
massage? If we need to change the values of refresh_pattern, could
anyone suggest them?

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Best regards.

-- 
Fernando Cozinheiro
System & Network Administrator
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