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Re: [libmicrohttpd] connection statistics


From: Christian Grothoff
Subject: Re: [libmicrohttpd] connection statistics
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:20:56 +0100
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The real issue with this kind of performance monitoring is that for multi-threaded applications it is very hard to give you a "sound" number. Also, I don't see how this would be helpful for the application that is running at the time.

If the system operator wants this information, it is pretty easy to get a snapshot: lsof and netstat will show you how many connections the application has open and what the overall TCP state looks like for the OS. So for server status monitoring, why not use these standard tools?

Now, if you actually have a very large number of mostly keep-alive connections, there are two possible answers: shorter timeout (so that they go away), or you're yet another person who'd like to see ePoll support for MHD (which is not that easy to add, hence it is not likely that I'll find the time to do this anytime soon). Looking at how many select/poll calls you're doing and how long they take (for example, using 'strace -c -e trace=select,poll') might be a good idea here.

In summary, I'm not sure I see a need for this kind of performance-monitoring support to be integrated with MHD, as the OS already gives you this and more high-quality information easily.

My 2 cents!

Happy hacking!

Christian

On 02/11/2012 12:40 AM, Eivind Sarto wrote:
The completion callback handler is called whenever an HTTP request has 
completed.
At that point there is no way of knowing if the connection remains open.

-eivind
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From: address@hidden address@hidden On Behalf Of Keith Mendoza address@hidden
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 3:32 PM
To: libmicrohttpd development and user mailinglist
Subject: Re: [libmicrohttpd] connection statistics

If you're intent is to see the number of active connections at the
moment I would say that this is something that you should be able to
do from within your application. This might even prove useful to you
at some future time in handling streaming of the video data. I can't
provide any use cases, but I'm getting the "it might be useful" itch.

If I understand it correctly, the completion handler is called when
the HTTP connected between your application and the client is closed.
So, if the keep-alive is still there wouldn't that mean that the
connection is still open and the completion callback should not be
called?

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Eivind Sarto<address@hidden>  wrote:
I am using libmicrohttpd for a video streaming project.
The HTTP server load can be quite high with a large number of requests per 
seconds and a high network bandwidth,
but the HTTP connections are mostly keep-alives.

In order to troubleshoot load related problems, it can be difficult to get an 
idea of what is going on a given server.
I want to add some kind of server status monitoring and I would like to be able 
to display the number of active
connections/requests and total connections/requests (among other things).

I can collect total and active number of requests from counters in the callback 
to the default handler and the completion handler.
However, I cannot find a way to get the total and active number of connections. 
 The only one who can keep an accurate count of
the number of connections is the internals of the library.

Does anyone see any value to adding some statistics/counters to libmicrohttpd 
that can returned via an API?

Or, is there something I am overlooking that I could do to display the number 
of active connections and total connections created?

-eivind








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