These graphs are snapshots of the MRTG graphs of web server activity on
the USGS Pasadena Office web server. In each case, the activity is the
traffic seen by the
Squid reverse-proxy server that acts as a front-end
for the
main web server. The Squid server acts as an accelerator
for the site. The story of how this configuration came about
is told in
"Web Servers, Earthquakes, and the Slashdot Effect".
The blue line is the total HTTP requests/min.
the green is the number of requests that were served out of the Squid
cache. The brown line is the cache hit ratio.