Re: Is my cache too small or too big?

Claudia Baertschi wrote:

> Thank you for your tips for my cache sizing reflexions.
>
> [clip]
> By the way: We do exclude the documents of our local domain
> from the cache. Therefore, in the squid statistik, they figure
> as misses. Is that normal or should I ajust the hit rate by the
> requests for local documents?
>
> (our hitrate is about 33%, with 4500MB swap and 230000 TCP requests
> a day).

I would recommend removing any requests that are on your own lan from the
logs before figuring the hitrate, and then figure the hit-rate in _bytes_.
It's a more accurate reflection of the benefit you are getting, IMO.

D

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