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Re: Comparing squid cache versus nothing



On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 05:24, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 03:03:26PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> > I'd activate cache, flush it then run an automated pull of a slew of
> > sites tried against both a proxied and unproxied session.  You can get a
> > list of sites (if you want to mirror your own behavior) from the squid
> > cache logs themselves.

And you could use Galeon's saved sessions feature for this.

> Damn, I was hoping for nice stats on both.  I kinda wish there was a
> free tool for this.

I use Squid with the calamaris log analysis thinger (as part , and I
drive the whole shooting match with Webmin.

Calamaris provides very comprehensive stats.

> > Are you trying to prove something to someone or satisfy your own
> > curiosity?
> 
> Curiosity to see if its worth keeping squid duing a transparent proxy
> now that our broadband came up (we were stuffed on dialup for four days
> when the person in charge of getting everybody's share of rent and bill
> money forgot the internet bill; when I got the connction going again,
> everybody was like, "Dude, it's like being able to breathe again!").

My instinct is that it probably is worth it because your web browser will
initially ask the proxy, which is presumably either local, or attached via
LAN, rather than the remote server, which is over 56K.

I don't have any hard numbers to back this up, though. 

Take care,

Peter.
-- 
Peter Whysall
peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc
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