[squid-users] how to obtain info about actual active downloads?

[Amos Jeffries]

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On 28/10/2014 5:37 a.m., Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
> On 27/10/14 11:47, Antony Stone wrote:
>> On Monday 27 October 2014 at 14:32:39 (EU time), Frantisek
>> Hanzlik wrote:
>> 
>>> Please, what is best way for determining who squid clients
>>> (their PC IP addresses) have which downloads active? I want it
>>> to determine which clients burden our slow internet line. 
>>> Examining 'access.log' does not help much in this case, because
>>> users can download large files and it may take a few minutes or
>>> hours (e.g. in case of consuming some audio/video streams).
>> I would use the tool 'iptraf', either running on your squid
>> server, or on a machine which can sniff your internal network
>> traffic (possibly with the use of a spanning port on the
>> switch).
>> 
>> That can give you real-time bandwidth measurements per IP
>> address.
>> 
> 
> I use this script:
> 
> http://samm.kiev.ua/sqstat/
> 
> Set it to auto-update on 15/15 seconds, for example, and you'll
> have a great and easy way to evaluate active connections and high
> bandwidth use connections.
> 


There is also the cachemgr interface for Squid. The "active_requests"
report lists the currently underway transactions.

Amos
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