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Count of connected clients/sockets

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Hi,

I am using io.sockets.clients().length to get the count of all currently connected clients, but after some time this number is way to high, many disconnected clients are still present in this array.

Below an image of io.sockets.clients().length, plotted every 5 minutes for 24 hours. Once the count reached over ~2k, i restarted the server, about 200 to 300 clients reconnected, which is the correct count.

Connected Clients

Is this the wrong way to get the count of all connected clients? I also tried to count the connects and disconnects manually, but after one day there were more disconnects than connects, the count was negative.

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Created 12 years ago
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dmportellacommented, Jul 3, 2012

there is also a Disable notifications for this Issue below

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dmportellacommented, Jul 3, 2012

man i got to do it +1 to that

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