Hi guys,

I've set up Squid on our local network about 8 months ago. Our users do a LOT of web browsing in their line of work. Having went through various squid efficiency and performance guides, I set it up for what I at the time assumed was the best efficiency.

However, I checked the logs recently with an efficiency analyzer, and discovered that only 7% of all LAN browsing traffic were hits and come from the cache, the other 93% were all misses and came directly from the Internet itself.

Would it help if I post my version of the squid config file here? Maybe you guys can make a few suggestions based on that?

By the way, as a sidenote: According to the efficiency analyzer, 55% of all browsing REQUESTS were cache hits, but only 7% of all TRAFFIC were cache hits.

If you state it like that, it sounds like 55% of the requests were cache hits, but the page is often either not cachable or has changed in the mean time. These are things that cannot be influenced by you.

What kind of websites does your company typically visit?

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan

Well that's just the thing - they are picture gallery sites, with the same pictures all over the place. I went through the header code on those pages, and they dont have any pragma and/or no-cache controls there. So theoretically, it should all be cached.