Squid, Evolution, Perl CPAN, Experimenting with backup

[Anthony David]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 02:06:17AM +0200, Steen Miravlix Poulsen wrote:
> I was fooling around with my squid cache on the home network server and
> now I'm seeing a insane speed improvement.
> 
> Proxy
> statistics                                                                
> ----------------------------------------------- -------------- ------ 
> Total amount:                                         requests 149536 
> Total amount cached:                                  requests 144784 
> Request hit rate:                                           %  96.82 
> Total Bandwidth:                                        Byte 21930M 
> Bandwidth savings:                                      Byte 21456M 
> Bandwidth savings in Percent (Byte hit rate):                %  97.84 
> Proxy efficiency (HIT [kB/sec] / DIRECT [kB/sec]):     factor 192.42 
> Average speed increase:                                   % 3645.38 
> 
> Compare it to pre. changes:
> 
> Total amount:                                         requests  27768 
> Total amount cached:                                  requests   7607 
> Request hit rate:                                            %  27.39 
> Total Bandwidth:                                          Byte   285M 
> Bandwidth savings:                                        Byte 22302K 
> Bandwidth savings in Percent (Byte hit rate):               %   7.64 
> Proxy efficiency (HIT [kB/sec] / DIRECT [kB/sec]):    factor   2.53 
> Average speed increase:                                   %   4.84 
> 
> (Thats a good day pre-conf update, used to have negative speed
> improvements. :p )
> 
> Can't we work on adding some improved pre-made squid example configs? 
> 
> I'm pretty sure most people is like me and it takes a huge accident to
> configure squid right for us.


Fascinating. Can you supply a diff of your changes?

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