Re: FN-FORUM: Dedicated linux hosting query

date posted 21st August 2003 15:32

I wrote:

> You don't have concurrent connections unless you're talking about the
> database. When you browse a web site then each object (for which I am
> talking about an html file, or a gif, or a jpg) is one TCP connection
> that is opened, data transfered, and then closed.
>
> I wouldn't say you can class them as concurrent because they never stay
> open that long, only long enough to transfer the data for the particular
> object.

Thinking about it, I suppose there could be some connections that do
hang around for a while, if you have anything that performs large
databases queries before returning results to a user, eg. a search,
but still a bit of a meaningless measurement of anything I think.

> For MySQL there is a tool called (I think) MyTOP, which shows you MySQL
> connection/query usage.

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/

-Paul-