Hi, first post on this forum so hello everyone and hope i find the answer here.

I have a Squid Proxy configured in a Fedora Core 6 box. Everything works fine and have no problems but in the access.log file y see a bunch of tcp_miss, so i run calamaris to see some usefull information on the last log.
The results:

# Incoming TCP-requests by status
status request % Byte % sec kB/sec
--------------------------------- --------- ------ -------- ------ ---- -------
HIT 71254 19.83 371207K 14.39 1 10.09
MISS 287250 79.95 2202253K 85.35 3 2.92
ERROR 803 0.22 6811649 0.26 56 0.15
--------------------------------- --------- ------ -------- ------ ---- -------
Sum 359307 100.00 2580113K 100.00 2 3.08

This proxy is 6 months old so i think the HITS has to be more like the MISS objects. But this is not the case and i wonder why. All the configuration is fine and already read most of the threads at this forum but still cant find the answer.

tcp_hit means the website was found in the memory or squid cache

tcp_miss means squid looked for the website in the cache but didnt find it
so downloaded it from the internet


they are both very normal

Hi, but in a squid box whit 6 months and 200gb of cached pages, i think there have to be a little more of hits and not so much misses.
Sorry for my english im from argentine.

Your results are not far off from what I have. At least from a percentage point of view.

My "HIT" rate is at 25.17%, and "MISS" is at 74.78%

I think a lot of it has to do with the surfing habits of the people behind the proxy.


But it doesn't seem that unusual to me.