Kemi, I increased my hit ratio by running pages and script output through a cacheability tool and taking corrective action as required. The main thing was to add mod_expires and mod_headers to my servers.
http://www.cacheflow.com/technology/tools/friendly/cacheability/index.cfm John Kent Webmaster Naval Research Laboratory Monterey, CA -----Original Message----- From: Duane Wessels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 4:47 PM To: Kemi Salam-Alada Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [squid-users] Low hit rate On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Kemi Salam-Alada wrote: > Hi all, > > How can I tune my squid so that I can generate high hit rate? Presently, I > am running squid using FreeBSD 4.3 OS and Squid 2.5 STABLE2. > The file system used for the disk is aufs. See the 'refersh_pattern' directive in squid.conf. You can probably increase your hit ratio by increasing the values of the refresh_pattern line(s). Duane W.