Re: [squid-users] Number of clients accessing cache: 9772

This was just discussed here not more than 6 hours ago, if not in those
precise terms.

HTTP is a stateless protocol. At any given instant, your cache may have
some number of active connections...however, that will look like a very
small percentage of what you and I would consider "browsing the web
right now". The best you can do is see "who has been browsing the web
in the past ten minutes" or something similar. Using tail and
calamaris, as I suggested in that previous thread a few hours ago, is a
good way to do that.

It is an imaginary concept to think in terms of "is this user browsing
the web right now", as far as Squid (or any HTTP client/server/proxy) is
concerned. If they are getting an object /right now/, they are
browsing, if they are sitting and reading the page or staring at dirty
pictures the proxy/server/client doesn't really know that or care.

active_requests in the cachemgr will give you the proxies view of who is
connected to the cache /right now/ and the objects they are retrieving,
and that is all it can give you unless it imagines something for you (I
don't think anyone really wants to receive imaginary values from their
Squid). ;-)

Edward Millington wrote:
> But is there a way to see the # current clients access the cache?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
> To: "Edward Millington" <edward@cariaccess.com>
> Cc: "Squid Users" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Number of clients accessing cache: 9772
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>>Edward Millington wrote:
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>>>The value does not decrease over a period of time.
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>>Right. It's cumulative. It is the number of unique IPs that have hit
>>your cache.
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>>>Right now very few people on my land is access cache.
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>>>I have block all access from outside exist to webhosting sites.
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>>>So no one(world) can use my cache to browsed.
>>>
>>Then you're fine. This number doesn't discriminate against users who
>>are DENIED. It is simply the number of IPs that hit the cache. Ignore
>>it, it is basically useless except as an indicator of potential abuse
>>(if you haven't blocked non-local users from using your proxy).
>>
>>--
>>Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
>>http://www.swelltech.com
>>Web Caching Appliances and Support
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Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
http://www.swelltech.com
Web Caching Appliances and Support