Re: Concurrent users logged in

"Jens-S. Voeckler" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Dancer wrote:
>
> ]Joel Taqueban wrote:
> ]>
> ]> I have searched the FAQs and still couldn't find my inquiry re
> ]> "how would i know how many concurrent users are currently logged in to
> ]> my proxy at a given time". Could someone please help....
> ]>
> ]> joel
> ]
> ]Since HTTP is stateless the answer would be zero. That's a useless and
> ]unhelpful answer, however. You _can_ write software to determine this,
> ]but first you have to define what 'logged in' means.
>
> You could try to 'define' it on TCP level. Look with "netstat -nf inet"
> for those lines, where the source host/port matches your cache. The number
> of lines in state ESTAB(LISHED) are the number of concurrent clients
> connected to your cache. For a nifty output, look at:

That number is blurred a little by the fact that netscape will have up
to 5 simultaneous connections open if there are inline images in the
page being loaded, and that internet explorer will have up to 32 or 33
connections at once.

D
Received on Mon Mar 29 1999 - 02:43:10 MST