On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:13:44PM +1000, Robinson Craig wrote: > Therefore, this makes me think that I can't actually use netstat to > 'measure' the 'number of concurrently connected clients'? Is this a fair > assumption? Hey Craig, You can still do that, but limit yourself to the Established connections. It gives you the advantage to be independent of apache in case of a DoS when mod_status is unavailable. For all other purposes, the latter is the better option, as it gives you more information. See Michael's message. cheer, Christian > > Cheers, Craig > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sander Temme [mailto:sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, 28 September 2007 1:01 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Understanding the APACHE 1.3 process model > > > On Sep 27, 2007, at 7:51 PM, Michael Conlen wrote: > > > you likely have 23 established connections using server processes and > > an additional number of server processes available to handle new > > connections. Apache keeps some number of processes available so that > > it doesn't have to fork the process at the time the request is made, > > but instead has the process ready to go. There are httpd.conf > > parameters to specify the minimum and maximum of these to keep > > available. > > See MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers. > > The TIME_WAIT, FIN_WAIT_1, FIN_WAIT_2 and LAST_ACK sockets should not be > attached to httpd children. > > httpd doesn't deal with the TCP layer, it deals with socket file > descriptors. > > S. > > -- > Sander Temme > sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx > PGP FP: 51B4 8727 466A 0BC3 69F4 B7B8 B2BE BC40 1529 24AF > > > > > ************************************************************************ > The information in this email together with any attachments is > intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed > and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. > Any form of review, disclosure, modification, distribution > and/or publication of this email message is prohibited, unless > as a necessary part of Departmental business. > If you have received this message in error, you are asked to > inform the sender as quickly as possible and delete this message > and any copies of this message from your computer and/or your > computer system network. > ************************************************************************ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx