Hi Amos, Sorry if I provided inaccurate information, I just based my answer on the following: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/InnerWorkings#Why_is_my_cache.27s_inbound_traffic_equal_to_the_outbound_traffic.3F Perhaps I just got that wrong! Best regards, Firas ----- Original Message ----- From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Evaluating SQUID performance On 25/07/2013 1:44 a.m., Golden Shadow wrote: > Hi, > > You can show them the hits statistics you get from the cache manager using: > squidclient mgr:info > > However, having a hit ratio of 30% let's say does not necessarily mean that squid would save you 30% of bandwidth. On the contrary. That is exactly what "Byte HIT-ratio" means: that in the last 5 min or 60 min (whichever it appears in) it has *already* saved that much % of upstream bandwidth. Amos
