Thanks Augustus for the email my information is ------------------- [root@proxy squid]# squidclient -h 127.0.0.1 mgr:storedir HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: squid/3.1.10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 07:01:30 GMT Content-Type: text/plain Expires: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 07:01:30 GMT Last-Modified: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 07:01:30 GMT X-Cache: MISS from proxy X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from proxy:3128 Via: 1.0 proxy (squid/3.1.10) Connection: close Store Directory Statistics: Store Entries : 13649421 Maximum Swap Size : 583680000 KB Current Store Swap Size: 250112280 KB Current Capacity : 43% used, 57% free Store Directory #0 (aufs): /opt/var/spool/squid FS Block Size 4096 Bytes First level subdirectories: 32 Second level subdirectories: 256 Maximum Size: 583680000 KB Current Size: 250112280 KB Percent Used: 42.85% Filemap bits in use: 13649213 of 16777216 (81%) Filesystem Space in use: 264249784/854534468 KB (31%) Filesystem Inodes in use: 13657502/54263808 (25%) Flags: SELECTED Removal policy: lru LRU reference age: 44.69 days -------------- and my squid.conf is as ---------------------------------------------- always_direct allow all cache_log /opt/var/log/squid/cache.log cache_access_log /opt/var/log/squid/access.log cache_swap_low 90 cache_swap_high 95 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1 acl localnet src 172.16.5.0/24 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 172.17.0.0/22 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 192.168.20.0/24 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines always_direct allow local-servers acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports acl ipgroup src 172.16.5.1-172.16.5.255/32 acl ipgroup src 172.17.0.10-172.17.3.254/32 delay_pools 1 delay_class 1 2 delay_parameters 1 2560000/3860000 140000/180000 delay_access 1 allow ipgroup delay_access 1 deny all http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost http_access deny all http_port 3128 transparent hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? cache_dir aufs /opt/var/spool/squid 570000 32 256 coredump_dir /opt/var/spool/squid maximum_object_size 4 GB refresh_pattern -i \.flv$ 10080 90% 999999 ignore-no-cache override-expire ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.(gif|png|jpg|jpeg|ico)$ 10080 90% 43200 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.(iso|avi|wav|mp3|mp4|mpeg|swf|flv|x-flv)$ 43200 90% 432000 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.(deb|rpm|exe|zip|tar|tgz|ram|rar|bin|ppt|doc|tiff)$ 10080 90% 43200 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.index.(html|htm)$ 0 40% 10080 refresh_pattern -i \.(html|htm|css|js)$ 1440 40% 40320 refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern . 0 40% 40320 visible_hostname proxy icap_enable on icap_preview_enable on icap_preview_size 4096 icap_persistent_connections on icap_send_client_ip on icap_send_client_username on icap_service qlproxy1 reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://127.0.0.1:1344/reqmod icap_service qlproxy2 respmod_precache bypass=0 icap://127.0.0.1:1344/respmod adaptation_access qlproxy1 allow all adaptation_access qlproxy2 allow all ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guidance and advice requested Thanks for the reply Joseph John ----- Original Message ----- From: babajaga <augustus_meyer@xxxxxxxx> To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Sent: Thursday, 1 August 2013 2:11 PM Subject: Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage The relatively low byte-hitrate gives the idea, that somewhere in your squid.conf there is a limitation on the max. objects size to be cached. It might be a good idea, to modify this one, to a larger value. Caus it seems, you still have a lot of disk space available for caching. So you might post your squid.conf here. And, the output of squidclient -h 127.0.0.1 mgr:storedir -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Squid-monitoring-access-report-shows-upto-5-to-7-cache-usage-tp4661301p4661399.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.