Re: Concurrent users logged in

On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Dancer wrote:

]> 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.

OK, you are right, "clients" is the wrong term, "requests" or
"connections" is more accurate. But that number is the one to worry about
when worrying about FDs, socket buffer RAM, etc. The resource limits of
the OS is in the number of concurrent connections, not the number of
clients. I know, I am detouring...

Le deagh dhùrachd,
Dipl.-Ing. Jens-S. Vöckler (voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de)
Institute for Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
University of Hanover, Germany; +49 511 762 4726
Received on Mon Mar 29 1999 - 02:51:56 MST