Re: [squid-users] Number Of Users

The number of connections is probably the more important from a
systems point of view.

Should be able to parse the look to generate how many times a
particular IP visits to get a better guessimate of the user connection
volume for the people management view.

On 3/4/06, Kinkie <kinkie-squid@kinkie.it> wrote:
> 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 Sun Mar 05 2006 - 09:36:01 MST