Hi List, I've being testing and studying squid for almost two weeks now and I'm getting no results. I already understood the problems related to http headers where in most cases web servers administrators or programmers are creating more and more dynamic data which is bad for caching. So, I installed CentOS 5 along with 2.6.STABLE6 using yum install and set only an ACL for my internal network. After that I set also visible_hostname to localhost since quid was complaining about it. Now, as I a stated already I read a lot regarding to squid including some tips in order to optimize sda access or increasing memory size limit but shouldn't squid be working great out-of-the-box?! Oh, I forgot my problem is that on mysar that I installed in order to see the performance I only see 0% of TRAFFIC CACHE PERCENT when already visited almost 300 websites. In some ocassions I see 10% or even 30/40% but for almost of 98% of websites I get 0%. So my questions are: - Should Squid be taking only in consideration for large environments with hundreds or even thousands of people accessing web?! - In these days a proxy like Squid for caching purposes is more a "have to have" or a "must to have" when for almost every site proxy's are skipped and the wan speed access are increasing every day now!? Thanks! By the way: I intend use Squid for caching purposes only since I already have Cisco based QOS and bandwidth management. My deploying site as only at most 5 people accessing web simultaneous under a 8Mb dsl connection. My current config is: http_port 3128 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? cache deny QUERY acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache broken_vary_encoding allow apache cache_mem 64 MB maximum_object_size 40 MB access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT acl myNetwork src 10.10.1.0/255.255.255.0 http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access allow localhost http_access allow myNetwork http_access deny all http_reply_access allow all icp_access allow all cache_effective_user squid cache_effective_group squid delay_pools 1 delay_class 1 1 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 coredump_dir /var/spool/squid visible_hostname localhost
