clarification on browsing/concurrent users

clarification on browsing/concurrent users

by Melissa Benson -
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I've done some searching and I have notconfirmed my question, sorry if it has been asked before.

I understand the concurrent user rule of thumb 1 GB = 50 concurrent users and how to find the number of browsing users but what exactly are "Browsing users". I see the definition at http://docs.moodle.org/en/User_site_capacities saying the number of users "Able" to browse.

Does that mean users that can log into Moodle and just "browse" and see Moodle and do not participate in quizzes, chats, etc.?

Basically, if users log into Moodle are they a "concurrent user"?

Thanks all.


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Re: clarification on browsing/concurrent users

by Howard Miller -
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Unfortunately the whole thing is complete guess work. You actually need to throw some hardware at the problem and see what happens. Different usage patters make a huge difference and they are very hard to quantify.

Running proper monitoring software is very important.
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Re: clarification on browsing/concurrent users

by Bob Hoagland -

"Running proper monitoring software is very important."

can someone expand on this a bit for Windows 2003 server?  What are options?

thanks