Actually, you will see that as your cache handles more traffic, the hit rate
increases.
We handle 400,000 requests per 24-hour period (totalling over 2 gigabytes)
and we have a hit rate of 55%, 34% by bandwidth. (a mere 280 modems... but
2300 customers active)
# TCP-Request State Request % kByte % sec
KB/sec
----------------------------------- ------- ------ -------- ------ ---- ----
---
HIT 231133 52.76 810247 34.60 0.38
9.11
MISS 206892 47.23 1531189 65.40 5.12
1.44
>I don't know about the "perfect" hit rate, but here are some stats
>from one of my caches:
>
>Count % Bytes % Status
>------- ------- ---------------
> 40.94 19.68 HIT
>That's over a 24-hour period with 535 hosts making 129082 queries.
