RE: [squid-users] RE: current concurrent connections

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:19 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 14:38 +0100, lokesh.khanna@accelonafrica.com
> wrote:
> >
> > I am also plotting req/sec so that is not a problem.
> > And I am not finding anything in mib.txt for total number of concurrent
> > connections.
> > Will it really be in squid mib, not in Operating system mib?
> >
> Hello,
>
> We get a (very) approximate number of concurrent connections by looking
> at the number of file descriptors in use. We configure squid to use 8192
> file descriptors, so for MRTG we specify:
>
> 8192 - cacheCurrentUnusedFDescrCnt&cacheCurrentUnusedFDescrCnt
>
Having said that, a quick look at the squid mib.txt file shows:

    cacheClients
    Number of clients accessing cache

which would perhaps seem a more reliable snapshot of the number of
concurrent connections.

John.

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