Hi all I'd like to ask you how can I improve my Hit Ratio ( byte or request ) cause it's on average 12-15 %, so it seems too low I'm using cacti to measure squid snmp activites and my basic config is: RAM: 1 GB cache_mem 8 MB maximum_object_size_in_memory 1 MB cache_dir ufs /var/cache/squid 5500 16 256 minimum_object_size 0 bytes maximum_object_size 4194304 bytes cache_swap_low 90 cache_swap_high 95 refresh_pattern windowsupdate.com/.*\.(cab|exe) 4320 100% 43200 reload-into-ims refresh_pattern download.microsoft.com/.*\.(cab|exe) 4320 100% 43200 reload-into-ims refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern -i \.(gif|png|jpg|jpeg|ico)$ 10080 90% 43200 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.(iso|avi|wav|mp3|mp4|mpeg|swf|flv|x-flv)$ 43200 90% 432000 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.(deb|rpm|exe|zip|tar|tgz|ram|rar|bin|ppt|doc|tiff)$ 10080 90% 43200 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-p rivate refresh_pattern -i \.index.(html|htm)$ 0 40% 10080 refresh_pattern -i \.(html|htm|css|js)$ 1440 40% 40320 refresh_pattern . 0 40% 40320 I'm hosting about 30 clients. FQDNcache Entries: 362 FQDNcache Requests: 25181 FQDNcache Hits: 15192 FQDNcache Negative Hits: 5348 FQDNcache Misses: 4641 IP Cache Statistics: IPcache Entries: 920 IPcache Requests: 497622 IPcache Hits: 332614 IPcache Negative Hits: 1088 IPcache Numeric Hits: 23602 IPcache Misses: 140318 Is it possible ot reach higher hit ratio ? Thanks pet