Current Anonymous Users Growing and Growning

External Since: Nov 19, 2003 Posts: 7

We have a public website running on IIS 5.0 and use
Current Anonymous Users counter in the Windows
Performance Monitor to view how many current users are
viewing the site.

We can usually expect to see an average reading of 350
users on the system, but recently noticed the number of
users is 2400. Due to the nature of the website, the
amount of users on the site usually drops to around 5-10
out of office hours, but still our reading is showing the
figure of 2400 currently on the system.

Can anyone explain this?

Many thanks.

External Since: Aug 23, 2003 Posts: 180

"Simon" <anonymous RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We have a public website running on IIS 5.0 and use
> Current Anonymous Users counter in the Windows
> Performance Monitor to view how many current users are
> viewing the site.
>
> We can usually expect to see an average reading of 350
> users on the system, but recently noticed the number of
> users is 2400. Due to the nature of the website, the
> amount of users on the site usually drops to around 5-10
> out of office hours, but still our reading is showing the
> figure of 2400 currently on the system.
>
> Can anyone explain this?

I'd say this is internet! You cannot really plan or expect the number of
users.

> Many thanks.