On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Dave Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Another way to look at it is how many page requests Squid/Varnish can > eliminate from Apache. In our MediaWiki Squid has an average cache hit > rate of 85% which means the Apache page requests is 6.5x smaller. For > small wikis this isn't a big deal but as you scale up reducing Apache > requests by a factor of 6 is huge. Since RationalWiki appears to be > kinda of in the middle you just have to ask yourself whether page > access numbers or the Apache load is more important. >
Indeed. If you've got caches in front of Apache, you won't even increment the hit counter on many requests. It's why our reports are pulled from the squid logs themselves. -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
