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
