Hi,
in http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ticket/613 I have suggested to add a
measure to varnishstat which I thought could be called the "efficiency ratio".
Tollef has commented that we'd need the community's (YOUR) opinion on this:
The varnishstat cache hit rate basically gives a ratio for how many requests
being directed to the cache component of varnish have been answered from it. It
does not say anything about the number of requests being passed onto the
backend
for whatever reason. So it is possible to see cache hit rates of 0.9999
(99.99%)
but still 99% of the client requests hit your backend, if only 1% of the
requests qualify for being served from the cache.
I am suggesting to amend (or replace ?) this figure by a ratio of client
requests being handled by the cache by total number of requests. In other
words,
a measure for how many of the client requests do not result in a backend
request.
My experience is that this figure is far more important, because cache users
will mostly be interested in saving backend requests. The cache hit rate is
probably of secondary importance, and it can be confusing to get a high cache
hit rate while still (too) many requests are hitting the backend.
Here's how the two figures look like on a production system:
Hitrate ratio: 10 100 1000
Hitrate avg: 0.9721 0.9721 0.9731
Efficiency ratio: 10 100 1000
Efficiency avg: 0.9505 0.9522 0.9533
55697963 200.97 256.93 Client connections accepted
402992210 1518.81 1858.98 Client requests received
390022582 1471.82 1799.15 Cache hits
1549 0.00 0.01 Cache hits for pass
9053637 22.00 41.76 Cache misses
Now it's up to you, what do you think about this?
Nils
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