On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:48:45 -0600, "bergenpeak@xxxxxxxxxxx" <bergenpeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks. Right now I have the squid content "ttl" set to 3600. However, > I think either the client is sending a "Cache control max-age=X" (where > X is < 3600) or where the origin server is providing the object to squid > with some cache control or equiv attributes to some value << 3600 which > is forcing squid to reverify the content hasn't changed. I'm trying to > determine if the issue is a client setting or origin server setting > which is (apprently) overriding the squid setting. Wondering what > knobs/tools exist within squid to see information about whether the > object is "fresh" or "stale". There is no such reporting for individual objects in Squid. Enter the URL at http://www.redbot.org to scan the web server properties. Amos > > Thanks > > > tookers wrote: >> >> bergenpeak@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to look at the object cache in squid and determine the >>> current "freshness" of the content? >>> >>> I've got content in the squid cache where I would expect the content to >>> be a "TCP_HIT". Looking in the squid access.log, I see the access to >>> the object being reported as "TCP_REFRESH_HIT". I'm trying to >>> understand if it's something in the client request or something in how >>> the original object was served up by the origin server which is causing >>> squid to re-verify with the origin server that the object hasn't >>> changed. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> Hi there, >> >> The Squid docs state that TCP_REFRESH_HIT is when an object is in cache >> but >> is STALE, the IMS (if-modified-since) query results in a '304 - not >> modified'. So the object is cached but has reached the max-age (e.g. 60 >> secs), Squid then checks on the back-end to see if a fresh version of the >> file exists. It comes back with status 304 because the object in cache, >> and >> on the back-end, are the same. If you are seeing lots of TCP_REFRESH_HIT, >> and the file isn't updated very often, it may be worthwhile increasing >> the >> cache time. >> >> HTH. >>
