Take a look at the reporting tool calamaris. There you get information about caching efficiency and you can see the efficiency of your refresh_patterns in a separate report as well. There are also values like: - Bandwidth savings in Percent (Byte hit rate) - Proxy efficiency (HIT [kB/sec] / DIRECT [kB/sec]) - Average speed increase and a huge amount of reports! http://cord.de/tools/squid/calamaris/Welcome.html.en Regards Michael On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 03:52, Bob Morrison wrote: > I am new to squid and would like to know what information to look for to see > if a squid cache needs adjusting to perform more efficiently. The > evaluation tool we’re using is CacheManager.CGI script that comes with > squid. > > Thanks in advance for any help > > Bob Morrison, CNE, MCSE > Network Administrator > Wallingford CT Public Schools USA > -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / With kind regards Michael Pophal -------------------------------------------------- Topic Manager Internet Access Services & Solutions -------------------------------------------------- Siemens AG, ITO A&S 4 Telefon: +49(0)9131/7-25150 Fax: +49(0)9131/7-43344 Email: michael.pophal@xxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------