Low hit rate

I think the below hit rate is very low. We have a object rate of 25%, but
in terms of bytes, we only hit 3.58 %. Is there anything I can change to
increase this? We use an upstream MS proxy to access the Internet.

Regards,
Tony

Incoming TCP-requests by status
status request % Byte % sec kB/sec
       
HIT 3599 25.11 5962843 3.58 0 1.98
  TCP_IMS_HIT 1448 10.10 365260 0.22 0 7.36
  TCP_REFRESH_HIT 1059 7.39 1886274 1.13 2 0.65
  TCP_MEM_HIT 512 3.57 611876 0.37 0 44.88
  TCP_HIT 354 2.47 2817169 1.69 0 101.66
  TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT 226 1.58 282264 0.17 0 60.61
MISS 10672 74.47 154968K 95.37 10 1.42
  TCP_MISS 10399 72.56 153606K 94.53 10 1.42
  TCP_REFRESH_MISS 273 1.90 1394614 0.84 3 1.35
ERROR 60 0.42 1744139 1.05 0 122.66
  TCP_MISS 50 0.35 1734019 1.04 0 122.40
  TCP_DENIED 8 0.06 7888 0.00 0 226.56
  NONE 2 0.01 2232 0.00 0 128.22
       
Sum 14331 162494K 7 1.45

my config is
http_port 8080icp_port 0tcp_incoming_address 0.0.0.0
tcp_outgoing_address 255.255.255.255udp_incoming_address 0.0.0.0
udp_outgoing_address 255.255.255.255cache_peer 192.168.2.23 Parent 80 7
icp_query_timeout 0mcast_icp_query_timeout 2000dead_peer_timeout 10 seconds
hierarchy_stoplist cgi-binhierarchy_stoplist ?cache_mem 16777216 bytes
cache_swap_low 90cache_swap_high 95maximum_object_size 41943040 bytes
ipcache_size 1024ipcache_low 90ipcache_high 95fqdncache_size 1024
cache_dir /var/spool/squid 1000 16 256cache_access_log
/var/log/squid/access.log
cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.logcache_store_log /var/log/squid/store.log
emulate_httpd_log offmime_table /etc/squid/mime.conflog_mime_hdrs off
pid_filename /var/run/squid.piddebug_options ALL,1log_fqdn off
client_netmask 255.255.255.255ftp_user Squid@ftp_list_width 32
cache_dns_program /usr/lib/squid/dnsserverdns_children 5dns_defnames off
unlinkd_program /usr/lib/squid/unlinkdpinger_program /usr/lib/squid/pinger
redirect_children 5redirect_rewrites_host_header onauthenticate_children 5
authenticate_ttl 3600wais_relay_port 0request_size 102400 bytes
reference_age 7776000 secondsquick_abort_min 16 KBquick_abort_max 16 KB
quick_abort_pct 95negative_ttl 300 secondspositive_dns_ttl 21600 seconds
negative_dns_ttl 300 secondsrange_offset_limit 0 bytes
connect_timeout 120 secondssiteselect_timeout 10 secondsread_timeout 900
seconds
request_timeout 45 secondsclient_lifetime 86400 secondshalf_closed_clients
on
pconn_timeout 120 secondsident_timeout 10 secondsshutdown_lifetime 30
seconds
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1acl SSL_ports port 443acl SSL_ports port 563
acl Safe_ports port 80acl Safe_ports port 21acl Safe_ports port 443
acl Safe_ports port 563acl Safe_ports port 70acl Safe_ports port 210
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535acl Safe_ports port 77acl Safe_ports port 45
acl CONNECT method CONNECTacl FTP proto ftphttp_access Allow manager
localhost
http_access Allow managerhttp_access Deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access Allow localhosthttp_access Allow allicp_access Allow all
miss_access Allow allproxy_auth_realm Squid proxy-caching web server
ident_lookup_access Deny allcache_mgr rootcache_effective_user squid
cache_effective_group squidvisible_hostname cdserver.dms
announce_period 31536000 secondsannounce_host tracker.ircache.net
announce_port 3131httpd_accel_port 80httpd_accel_with_proxy off
httpd_accel_uses_host_header offlogfile_rotate 0tcp_recv_bufsize 0 bytes
err_html_text memory_pools onmemory_pools_limit 0 bytesforwarded_for on
log_icp_queries onicp_hit_stale offminimum_direct_hops 4
cachemgr_passwd XXXXXXXXXX allstore_avg_object_size 13 KB
store_objects_per_bucket 50client_db onnetdb_low 900netdb_high 1000
netdb_ping_period 300 secondsquery_icmp offtest_reachability off
buffered_logs offreload_into_ims offnever_direct Allow allnever_direct Allow
FTP
anonymize_headersicon_directory /usr/lib/squid/icons
error_directory /etc/squid/errorsminimum_retry_timeout 5 seconds
maximum_single_addr_tries 3snmp_port 3401forward_snmpd_port 0
snmp_access Deny allsnmp_incoming_address 0.0.0.0
snmp_outgoing_address 255.255.255.255as_whois_server whois.ra.net
incoming_icp_average 6incoming_http_average 4min_icp_poll_cnt 8
min_http_poll_cnt 8max_open_disk_fds 0offline_mode offuri_whitespace deny
prefer_direct onstrip_query_terms on
Received on Fri Jun 09 2000 - 01:39:27 MDT