Hi Antony thanks for the reply, I have filed up the corresponding information below ->---- Original Message ----- >From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: "squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Cc: >Sent: Monday, 29 July 2013 2:45 PM >Subject: Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage >On Monday 29 July 2013 at 12:36:05, John Joseph wrote: > >Hi All > > > >For purpose of convincing about the squid cahce, I installed and started > >monitoring SQUID using mysar "http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysar/";; > > >> Is this % too low or average how much should a optimized squid setup give. >> Or should I dig into some more configuration to pump the cache % > How large is your cache? It is around 556GB, my cache dir details in squid.conf are cache_dir aufs /opt/var/spool/squid 570000 32 256 > How many users are going via Squid? At present not more than 250 users, but concurrent users will not be more than 50 users > How long have they been using it (how long has Squid been building up its cache)? 3 months > How many connection requests do you have per minute/hour/day/whatever makes sense? Can you please advice me on how to check for this parameter > How many cache HITs do you see in the log file compared to MISSes (ie: how often are cached objects being requested)? Can you please advice me on how to check for this parameter > Any other relevant information you can supply might be helpful in providing an answer. from the mysar, I get the following information, which I am pasting here USERS HOSTS SITES TRAFFIC Cache Percent 12 990 18336 47.71G 5.00% 21 1020 26877 86.57G 5.00% 31 1017 24811 105.67G 4.00% 59 1024 29185 119.15G 4.00% 41 1022 27245 106.82G 5.00% 25 1022 26785 86.68G 5.00% 29 1019 26609 71.94G 6.00% 23 1019 24863 79.48G 5.00% 20 1016 24334 77.44G 5.00% 43 1015 25206 72.18G 5.00% 18 1016 24187 81.28G 5.00% 38 1021 25538 80.74G 6.00% 30 1021 27427 85.19G 5.00% 31 1021 27369 96.13G 5.00% 29 1019 23879 74.26G 5.00% 28 1014 20715 70.90G 5.00% 22 1010 22537 69.59G 5.00% 22 1021 23031 86.52G 4.00% 19 1015 22542 73.21G 5.00% 16 1020 22408 74.67G 5.00% 23 1021 23594 72.99G 5.00% 28 1021 23408 71.97G 6.00% 17 1006 21390 64.28G 5.00% 23 994 22685 61.42G 5.00% 20 1016 25792 71.54G 5.00% 24 1017 25178 74.03G 5.00% 37 1019 29740 83.19G 5.00% 22 1020 25175 77.47G 5.00% Guidance and advice requested. Thanks Joseph John > Regards, > Antony. -- Users don't know what they want until they see what they get. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.
