Posted by burgermeister01@gmail.com on 08/23/07 17:14

On Aug 23, 9:54 am, FrobinRobin <frobinro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 Aug, 15:37, "burgermeiste...@gmail.com"
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> <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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> > - Show 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?

Oh, and one other thing, just for the record, Ethereal is free and
relatively easy to use, so I can't say I entirely understand your
reluctance to try it.

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