Trying to setup a small local proxy for testing.. 2.7 Stable7 on FreeBSD 32bit here are the mem and cache entries from squid.conf.. # memory options memory_pools off cache_mem 1024 MB maximum_object_size_in_memory 2 MB ## cache options cache deny all cache_dir null /tmp cache_access_log /var/log/squid/access.log cache_store_log none cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.log cache_mem 1024 MB no_cache deny nocache cache_effective_group squid cache_effective_user squid in short the TCP_HIT *never* happens.. 341843 /var/log/squid/access.log 60M /var/log/squid/access.log and the log is rotated daily.. so we are using the proxy *heavily*.. > grep -c TCP_HIT /var/log/squid/access.log 0 > grep -c TCP_MISS /var/log/squid/access.log 327072 is it because I have the cache_dir disable the reason for the 0 TCP_HITs? Thanks in advance.