A near hit is a validated cache miss - the object was stale, but squid
did a Get with If-Modified-Since to the origin and received a 304 Not
Modified, which resets the refresh timer on the object. You'll see
these as TCP_REFRESH_HIT in the access log.
-C
On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:18 AM, J. Peng wrote:
this is the info from my squidclient's output.
Median Service Times (seconds) 5 min 60 min:
HTTP Requests (All): 0.00000 0.00000
Cache Misses: 0.02592 0.02592
Cache Hits: 0.00000 0.00000
Near Hits: 0.03622 0.05331
Not-Modified Replies: 0.00000 0.00000
DNS Lookups: 0.00000 0.00000
ICP Queries: 0.00000 0.00000
what's Near Hits in the info? thanks.