> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 02.47, Wei Keong wrote: > > Squid 1 has no cache, only converting proxy request to web > > request... > > What does cachemgr say about hit rate on Squid 1?
Squid 1 has 128MB of cache mem... Req Hit about 15%, Byte Hit about 5% > > Is the MST is taken from the Squid access log? > > Depends on where you are reading the value.. if you are reading it > from a statistics tool which processes access.log then it is. If you > are reading it via cachemgr then you are reading an internal > statistics field from Squid. The two should end up with the same > value however.. I obtain the MST from cachemgr, and plot it onto RRD graphs. The HTTP Request (All) and Cache Misses for Squid 1 is clearly lower than 2. > > Supposing we are downloading a file, does Squid writes into access > > log when it receives the response header or when it receives the > > whole file? > > Squid access times are calculated from the time Squid has received the > request headers to where it has written the full response to the > client socket. > > Another thing it can be is TCP windows. Most "server" OS:es have much > larger TCP windows than microsoft desktop OS:es... This shows that MST should be a valid measurement of response time... Btw, wget test verified that Squid 1 takes longer to download... Rgds, Wei Keong
