Re: [squid-users] Squid Efficiency - What else to tweak?

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:50 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > > On 21.02 12:33, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > > > P 133 Mhz
> > > > 128MB Ram
> > > > 20GB Hard Disk
> > > > 1GB Cache in aufs
> > > > Fedora Core 3
> > > >
> > > > Here are the stats reported by calamaris 2.99
> > > > Total amount: requests 10471
> > > > Total amount cached: requests 1330
> > > > Request hit rate: % 12.70
> > > > Total Bandwidth: Byte 107M
> > > > Bandwidth savings: Byte 1767K
> > > > Bandwidth savings in Percent (Byte hit rate): % 1.62
> > > > Average speed increase: % -0.49
>
> ...add more memory and disk space.

Not an option unfortunately

> I haven't seen his cache_mem

cache_mem used to be at 32MB (because I wantted to save on Bandwidth,
but I've since lowered it down to 4MB default due to me now wanting
more speed increase instead

> and memory
> usage, but maybe using more than one GB for disk cache would help a bit
> without machine starting to swap...

The rest are really default values. I didn't change anything else

>
> But as long as the question was what to do "besides the hardware"...
>
> Also: What replacement policy do you (Ow Mun Heng) use? I use heap LFUDA for
> disk objects and heap GSDF for memory cache. LFUDA gave me 2% better byte
> radio and GSDF 2% better hit ratio IIRC.

default, which would mean LRU.
>

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