Re: squid under solaris 2.5.1 consume a lot of file descriptors?

Hi,

According to Bertold Kolics's mail...
>
>
> Hi,
> >The number of file descriptors used is approximately equal to the number
> >of established connection plus the number of close_wait if your server
> >is not really busy and your server is not NOVM.
>
> Our server was really busy. And the TCP/IP stack of Solaris 2.5 performs
> bad in high traffic situations. And *this* was our problem. If there are
> many re-transmissions or packet drop at your TCP stack, then the number of
> file descriptors needed to give the same performance is significantly
> higher.

I notice that we had set client_lifetime to 300 which is quite high and
it should be one of the reason why there are so many CLOSE_WAIT.
However, our other proxy servers using FreeBSD and Digital Unix are
quite fine with this value.

So K T, CUHK
Received on Thu Jan 22 1998 - 23:17:53 MST