[geeks] faster www cache

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

I've been running squid for years as my WWW cache.

Yesterday I decided to look at the statistics and they are
disappointing.

I'm the only user on my personal LAN, and I so I have a smallish 1GB
squid cache.

I only get about an 8% hit rate, which is making me wonder if there is
any point to running it.  It doesn't even make a blip in process time so
I'm not worried about that part, but I wonder if I'm getting any real
benefit to using the caching.

Most pages are dynamic these days, so a lot can't be cached, but it
still seems like it should be higher.

Then again, maybe the cachemgr.cgi program doesn't really tell the right
story.

Could it be squid just isn't appropriate for personal use?  Tuning
issue?

Maybe another cache would be better?


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