[imp] Reporting information from memcached.

[robert sand]

Thanks.  That is helpful.  I did modify a script I found on the horde site that cleans the lock files made by horde. 
Using the session id as a key you can tell if the session is still available in the memcached server.  If you consider 
each session id to be a user then you can get an approximate count of the number of valid sessions in the memcached 
server and the total number of sessions (users) in a given period of time.  I only clean the lock files once per day so 
it would be a 24 hour period.  Below is a copy of the modified script.


<?php

# Connect to memcache
$memcache = new Memcache;
$memcache->connect('yourmemcacheserver', 11211);

# Walk through lock files
$dir = "/dir/containing/lock/files";
$total = 0;
$removed = 0;
$dh = opendir($dir) or die("Unable to open '$dir'");
while(($filename = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
     if (preg_match('/^lock_([a-z0-9]+)$/', $filename, $matches)) {
         $key = $matches[1];
         $total++;
         if ($memcache->get($key) === false) {
             $removed++;
         }
     }
}

closedir($dh);

$memcache->close();

echo "Number of daily users = $total\n";
$current = $total-$removed;
echo "Number of current users = $current\n";
?>


Graeme Wood wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, robert sand wrote:
> 
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone out there has a php script I could use to 
>> get data from the memcached server?
>>
>> What I'm looking for us total number concurrent users, and if possible 
>> number of stale sessions.
>>
>> Thanks for your consideration.
> 
> memcached has no concept of users. However, the memcached website links 
> to this PHP-based control panel developed by someone:
> 
> <http://livebookmark.net/journal/2008/05/21/memcachephp-stats-like-apcphp/>
> 
> No idea if it works.
> 

-- 
Robert Sand.
mailto:rsand at d.umn.edu
1028 Kirby Drive
366 K Plz
Duluth, MN 55812-3095
218-726-6122        fax 218-726-7674

"Walk behind me I may not lead, Walk in front of me I may not follow,
Walk beside me and we walk together"  UTE Tribal proverb.