RE: [squid-users] Number Of Users

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 05:13 +0530, Jacob, Stanley (GE Consumer Finance,
consultant) wrote:
> this will give you rough estimate
> netstat -an | grep 3128 | wc -l
>
Maybe you mean mis-estimate...
This is the number of TCP connections to squid, also available in
cachemgr.
Unfortunately it has no real connection to the number of people
accessing squid: each person who is currently downloading some webpage
might have multiple streams open (up to four per window in Internet
Explorer, on Mozilla Firefox up to 4 per process by default, but the
number can be raised quite a lot). On the other hand, someone who is
reading a page she downloaded will have no active connections to squid
(except those connections which are kept alive, and you see how things
get messy fast...)

In other words, guesstimating the number of users accessing a proxy is
even messier than trying to estimate the number of users accessing a
website.

        Kinkie
Received on Sat Mar 04 2006 - 14:53:59 MST