Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-08-06 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 5/08/2013 11:14 p.m., babajaga wrote: Sorry, Amos, not to waste too much time here for an off-topic issue, but interesting matter anyways: Okay. I am running out of time and this is slightly old info I'm basing all this on - so shall we finish up? measurements and testing is kind of

Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-08-05 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 5/08/2013 12:58 p.m., babajaga wrote: Erm. On fast or high traffic proxies Squid uses the disk I/O capacity to the limits of the hardware. If you place 2 UFS based cache_dir on one physical disk spindle with lots of small objects they will fight for I/O resources with the result of dramatic

[squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-08-05 Thread babajaga
Sorry, Amos, not to waste too much time here for an off-topic issue, but interesting matter anyways: I ACK your remarks regarding disk controller activity. But, AFAIK, squid does NOT directly access the disk controller for raw disk I/O, the FS is always in-between instead. And, that means, that a

Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-08-04 Thread John Joseph
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

Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-08-04 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 4/08/2013 7:13 p.m., John Joseph wrote: 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:

[squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-08-04 Thread babajaga
Like I guessed already in my first reply, you are reaching the max limit of cached objects in your cache_dir, like Amos explained. Which will render ineffective part of your disk space. However, as an alternative to using rock, you can setup a second ufs/aufs cache_dir. (Especially, in case, you

Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-08-04 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 5/08/2013 4:17 a.m., babajaga wrote: Like I guessed already in my first reply, you are reaching the max limit of cached objects in your cache_dir, like Amos explained. Which will render ineffective part of your disk space. However, as an alternative to using rock, you can setup a second

[squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-08-04 Thread babajaga
Erm. On fast or high traffic proxies Squid uses the disk I/O capacity to the limits of the hardware. If you place 2 UFS based cache_dir on one physical disk spindle with lots of small objects they will fight for I/O resources with the result of dramatic reduction in both performance and disk

Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-08-01 Thread John Joseph
10:55:24 - Requesting Guidance and Advice thanks Joseph John - Original Message - From: babajaga augustus_me...@yahoo.de To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, 30 July 2013 12:13 PM Subject: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows

Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-08-01 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 1/08/2013 6:35 p.m., John Joseph wrote: Hi Amos,Ahmad,Babajaga Thanks for your advice and feed back, I am posting more information --- the HIT,MISS,REFRESH details are cat /opt/var/log/squid/access.log | grep -c HIT 13810283 cat /opt/var/log/squid/access.log | grep -c MISS

[squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-08-01 Thread babajaga
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

[squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage

2013-07-30 Thread babajaga
You should install and use http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/CacheManager This gives you a lot of info regarding cache performance, like hit rate etc. Having 556 GB of cache within one cache dir might already hit the upper limit of max. number of cached objects, depending upon the avg size