Posted by FrobinRobin on 08/23/07 14:54

On 23 Aug, 15:37, "burgermeiste...@gmail.com"
<burgermeiste...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 23, 6:13 am, FrobinRobin <frobinro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I intend to use Ajax for a kiosk application, it's primary usage is to
> > retrieve live data from my DB, it's a fairly small amount of data (5
> > fields, of small data size and limited to 15 rows).
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> > When I check my server logs I can see that the kiosk page has used a
> > fair amount of bandwidth this month, this is obviously because a
> > javascript timeout refreshes the data every 10 seconds. What I need to
> > know is how to calculate the bandwidth of the data for every ten
> > seconds and then I can do the math to work out usage hours * bandwidth
> > per hour.
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> > This is probably a fairly simple task but I've never done it before so
> > any help would be much appreciated!
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> > Many Thanks
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> I'm not entirely sure that PHP is really the best solution to your
> problem. There may be a method of measuring bandwidth with PHP, but
> probably an easier way would simply be to use a network analyzer, for
> example, Ethereal. However, such software has little to do with PHP
> programming, so unless you still feel that PHP is the best solution,
> further inquiries should be directed to a more fitting newsgroups.
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> Good luck!- Hide quoted text -
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I just want to know how much data each ajax request is - I dont want
to start messing around with third party apps.
How about if I outputted the data to a file then used the filesize()
function? Would that give me the correct data size per ajax request?

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