Lots of users.. I mean LOTS!

[rewebb]

I routinely monitor our web servers and on a Sunday night would expect the intranet server only to have a handful of users. Imagine my surprise when PerfMon reports that tonight we have a LOT more users than that... 4,294,967,295 to be exact. Yes, that's over 4 billion users. Now I know it's a good intanet, but hell it's not THAT popular!

So, can anyone suggest what's scramling PerfMon's brains???

Rob W

 

[Galrahn]

Did you check your web site logs? The one getting all the attention will likely stand out among the others.

Galrahn

 

[koquito]

iF you are trying to mean Hits to your site by the word users, then what it shows is just someone trying to make a Denial of Service on your Server by flooding it with requests, but so many that could lead it to a crash. So be aware of that. A+, MCP, CCNA
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[rewebb]

I checked the log files and they no larger than normal. Activity for 4+ Billion users would ahve filled the disk drive up anyway...

RW

 

[koquito]

then either or the logs, or the hits are not reflecting the 4 Billions. THis site is more popular than

http://www.microsoft.com

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[neofactor]

Are you sure your logs are set to grow as large as possible?

Most are set to overwrite themselves if they get larger than x mb.

That way you do not have a denial of service attack based on flooding the log (and I have seen people set it this way and have their sites go down from an attack)



David McIntosh

http://www.neofactor.com

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[rewebb]

Yes, I have the log files configured correctly - daily logs are usually approx 100Mb. As this was a Sunday the log file was only 2 or 3 Mb. I don't for one minute beleive we actually had that many users (!) I think it was PerfMon getting itself confused, but I was interested to know if anyone had seen something similar or if you knew what muight have caused it.

Rob W