Time to replace the hit ratio with something more intuitive?

[Darryl Dixon - Winterhouse Consulting]

> Hi,
>
> in http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ticket/613 I have suggested to add a
> measure to varnishstat which I thought could be called the "efficiency
> ratio".
>
> Here's how the two figures look like on a production system:
>
>     Hitrate ratio:          10      100     1000
>     Hitrate avg:        0.9721   0.9721   0.9731
> Efficiency ratio:          10      100     1000
> Efficiency avg:        0.9505   0.9522   0.9533
>
>      55697963       200.97       256.93 Client connections accepted
>     402992210      1518.81      1858.98 Client requests received
>     390022582      1471.82      1799.15 Cache hits
>          1549         0.00         0.01 Cache hits for pass
>       9053637        22.00        41.76 Cache misses
>
>
> Now it's up to you, what do you think about this?

+1

regards,
Darryl Dixon
Winterhouse Consulting Ltd
http://www.winterhouseconsulting.com