Re^3: How to count the number of pending clients in socket queue?

I believe (not 100% sure but seems to work on my Debian with 3.10.3 kernel) that in /proc/net/tcp the sockets in listen-state have a state-code of "0A" and for those the receive-queue entry holds the number of pending (i.e. not yet accepted) connections.

This is how such an entry looks like:

1: 00000000:1A0B 00000000:0000 0A 00000000:00000002 00:00000000 00000000 1000 0 1117932 1 ffff880031e70040 100 0 0 10 0

The fist column is the local address (here a server-socket listening on port 6667) the next the remote address, then the state (here 0A for listening) then the transmit and receive queue-lengths.

Here my server has 2 connections pending.

So using the address your server listens you should be able to extract the information you need from /proc/net/tcp.

Maybe Linux::Proc::Net::TCP can help here, but I have never used it.

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Re^4: How to count the number of pending clients in socket queue? by mrbark (Acolyte) on Nov 25, 2013 at 04:35 UTC
Awesome! Thank you. Work on Slackware too, and if it works on Slack that means it is a Linux standard. I never thought there was a file like this, perfect!	[reply]