which port number is heavily accessed

barunva · 10-30-2008, 07:15 AM

Hi,

I would like to know which port number is heavily loaded/accessed in the unix system. Is there any command to check the usability of particular port number?

For example, if i want to check the port number 80, in the following scenarios,
how many users are accessing and their usage of the resource?

Regards,
Arun

ddaemonunics · 10-30-2008, 08:37 AM

You should look at this from the software perspective..the software that listens at port 80.
Because you will find for sure.. lets say that apache is listening on port 80..some utilities that will show you the load on apache..diferent users that are accessing the server etc..cpu load generated by apache, memory usage for apache processes
just my 2 cents..

if you know what process listens on some port you could use utilities like top.

theNbomr · 10-30-2008, 08:49 AM

You can get a decent snapshot summary of open ports with

Code:

lsof | grep IPv

This will show the names of the programs using the ports, as well as the users and PIDs. Some port numbers will be displayed in name format, and you can refer to /etc/services to look up their numeric values, if that is more useful.

--- rod.

chrism01 · 10-30-2008, 07:04 PM

Also for Apache, look at the access_log.