Win2k Server, IIS 5 and Performance Monitor

[bob332]

when i start up the performance monitor, add the current anonymous users under the web process, the number never goes down. even if i turn the http server off for 6 hours, it still stays that "x" amount of people are currently connected. even if i disconnect it from the network it still shows connections? why is this? it seems to mirror the maxiumum connections. any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

[bob332]

also, why would the performance monitor show i have 1200 anonymous users connected, but the logs and also the bandwith don't show this?

 

[blstriker]

Unfortunatly, the anonymous visitors is not accurate. You'll notice that anonymous visitors will almost always have the same number as number of connections. Each visitor will make between 2-30 connections. To see all the connections to your server, go to a command prompt and type in "netstat -n". Also, in IIS, you probably have "keep alive" enabled which keeps more connection alive.

 

[bob332]

i do have keep alives enabled, but set for only 60 seconds, should i disable this?

 

[blstriker]

keep alives are fine. It makes things faster for your visitors so they don't have to reconnect to your server every time they make a request. However, it puts a greater load on your server. If you server can handle it, I'd leave it alone.

 

[bob332]

is 60 seconds too short, is 900 seconds that is the default too long? what would be a good value for this? i have had upto 1500 unique visitors in 1 day with a total of 200000 + hits and the server did fine.