Re: Squid

[Kevin Halgren <kevin.halgren () WASHBURN EDU>]

Using cachemgr.cgi (has to be moved into Apache cgi-bin directory, fyi), 
under "General Runtime Information"  and looking at the Byte hit 
ratios.  Since the primary purpose was to server as a proxy, monitoring 
the caching stats long-term hasn't been a priority.  However, 
spot-checking under typical use we see around 10%

Kevin

On 6/24/2011 12:46 PM, Kevin Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Kevin Halgren
> <kevin.halgren () washburn edu>  wrote:
>
> > We've retained the
> > caching function because it's helpful when downloading large updates to
> > refresh systems, nonetheless we've only seen about a 10% reduction in
> > traffic from utilizing the squid cache.  At that level, installing a squid
> > proxy for general campus use simply isn't worth the maintenance and
> > occasional trouble tickets that it would generate.
> How are you measuring the saved bandwidth? SNMP against the squid servers?
>
> kmw

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Kevin Halgren
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Washburn University
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