On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:33:31 +0200, Adrian Dascalu <adrian.dascalu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm out of ideeas trying to debug cache misses that I cannot explain. As a > last resort I'm sending this problem to the list with the hope that you > could come up with some explanation and/or cure for this. > > the setup is: squid 2.7stable9 on RHEL 5, configured as accel, 12 parents > 1 sibling (another squid). Apache in front zope as parents. > > For the root page I send requests from the same browser. The page is > supposed to stay in cache for 1h. I've seen it behaving correctly one time > (at squid startup) afterwards if i keep requesting the page a few times I > will get a MISS long before the 3600s have passed. > > I have checked and there is no PURGE for this URL in the mean time. There > are some for other URL's deeper in the structure. Does not need to be an explicit PURGE. Merely a required alternative ETag, or a force-reload request. Can you please provide a new set of headers, for a given object initially when its a HIT and afterwards when its a MISS. NP: a full new HIT set is required to correlate exact times and tags, the ones below are too old now to be reliably compared to any MISS. > > here's a request: > > Host www.somewebsite.com > > User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) > Gecko/20100330 Fedora/3.5.9-1.fc11 > Firefox/3.5.9Accepttext/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 > > Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5 > > Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate > > Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 > > Keep-Alive 300 > > Connection keep-alive > > Referer http://www.somewebsite.com/ > > Cookie > __utma=173508663.4134765344646281700.1250060356.1271487209.1289208944.50; > __utmb=173508663.59.10.1289208944; __utmc=173508663; > __utmz=173508663.1289208944.50.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none) > > here's a HIT reply: > > Date Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:06:29 GMT > > Server Zope/(Zope 2.9.10-final, python 2.4.3, linux2) ZServer/1.1 > Plone/2.5.5 > > Content-Length 10131 > > Content-Language en > > Content-Encoding gzip > > Expires Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:05:48 GMT Hmm, object is cacheable for *2 days*. Not the hour you said. > > Vary Accept-Encoding,Accept,If-None-Match,X-Username > > X-Caching-Rule-Id plone-containers > > Cache-Control max-age=0, s-maxage=3600 Irrelevant, Expires: header overrides these. > > Content-Type text/html;charset=utf-8 > > X-Header-Set-Id cache-in-proxy-1-hour > > Age 40 > > X-Cache HIT from squid1.somewebsite.com > > X-Cache-Lookup HIT from squid1.somewebsite.com:3128 > > Via 1.0 squid1.somewebsite.com:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE9) > > Keep-Alive timeout=8, max=100 > > Connection Keep-Alive > > Long before the 3600s have passed ,from the same browser, I would get a > MISS. The request headers are IDENTICAL and there is no PURGE. What else > might invalidate the cached object? > > > Thank you, > Adrian