Hi Squid Masters, I want some help for you. I want my squid server to give me caching for atleast 20 % means 20% bandwdith saving. How do i configure squid to achieve this target. Plz recommend me the required hardware.
This is a Transparent squid proxy server. my hardware and os are: hp brio pentium 3 with 512 ram 40 Gb harddisk. Redhat 9.0 with default squid 2.5stable1 This server is doing bandwidth management too with tc qdisc. Bandwidth manegement is working great but squid performance is not good. Let me give u the results. HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: squid/2.5.STABLE1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 03:41:13 GMT Content-Type: text/plain Expires: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 03:41:13 GMT Last-Modified: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 03:41:13 GMT X-Cache: MISS from ICG.d2visp.com Proxy-Connection: close Squid Object Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE1 Start Time: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:02:00 GMT Current Time: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 03:41:13 GMT Connection information for squid: Number of clients accessing cache: 63 Number of HTTP requests received: 85178 Number of ICP messages received: 6861 Number of ICP messages sent: 6861 Number of queued ICP replies: 0 Request failure ratio: 0.00% Average HTTP requests per minute since start: 80.4 Average ICP messages per minute since start: 13.0 Select loop called: 793372 times, 80.104 ms avg Cache information for squid: Request Hit Ratios: 5min: 61.0%, 60min: 46.3% Byte Hit Ratios: 5min: 52.8%, 60min: 39.8% Request Memory Hit Ratios: 5min: 1.5%, 60min: 2.3% Request Disk Hit Ratios: 5min: 47.3%, 60min: 30.3% Storage Swap size: 8946620 KB Storage Mem size: 52036 KB Mean Object Size: 10.49 KB Requests given to unlinkd: 1146 Median Service Times (seconds) 5 min 60 min: HTTP Requests (All): 0.49576 0.52331 Cache Misses: 0.76407 0.72387 Cache Hits: 0.02592 0.02742 Near Hits: 0.64968 0.55240 Not-Modified Replies: 0.01556 0.01847 DNS Lookups: 0.00464 0.00669 ICP Queries: 0.00000 0.00000 Resource usage for squid: UP Time: 63552.354 seconds CPU Time: 654.970 seconds CPU Usage: 1.03% CPU Usage, 5 minute avg: 0.38% CPU Usage, 60 minute avg: 0.10% Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 1375 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): Total space in arena: 149024 KB Ordinary blocks: 148969 KB 2703 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks Holding blocks: 4200 KB 4 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 55 KB Total in use: 153169 KB 100% Total free: 55 KB 0% Total size: 153224 KB Memory accounted for: Total accounted: 111902 KB memPoolAlloc calls: 14124028 memPoolFree calls: 12292013 File descriptor usage for squid: Maximum number of file descriptors: 1024 Largest file desc currently in use: 51 Number of file desc currently in use: 48 Files queued for open: 0 Available number of file descriptors: 976 Reserved number of file descriptors: 100 Store Disk files open: 1 Internal Data Structures: 853047 StoreEntries 5276 StoreEntries with MemObjects 5273 Hot Object Cache Items 852761 on-disk objects what can i do that i can achieve atleast 20 percent bandwidth saving from this cache server. I am attaching my squid.conf with this mail. kindly reply and help me .. Thanks, Joel