Thanks for the info on Calamaris. I installed Calamaris 2.99 and came up with these results: Total amount: requests 50000 Total amount cached: requests 19488 Request hit rate: % 38.98 Total Bandwidth: Byte 346M Bandwidth savings: Byte 50716K Bandwidth savings in Percent (Byte hit rate): % 14.30 Proxy efficiency (HIT [kB/sec] / DIRECT [kB/sec]): factor 4.47 Average speed increase: % 12.48 The cache in this example is a child cache that is serving about 300 PC's in a high school. The cache size is 1GB with 16K first level dirs and 256 second level dirs. Should I be worried about these numbers? If so, what should I do to improve them? Thanks in advance for any help Bob Morrison, CNE, MCSE Network Administrator Wallingford CT Public Schools USA -----Original Message----- From: Michael Pophal [mailto:michael.pophal@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:10 AM To: rmorris@xxxxxxxx Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [squid-users] Measuring Squid Efficiency 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 --------------------------------------------------
