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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 >
