file descripters

Could someone point me to some documentation on making more file
descripters available to squid 1.1.22. I changed my Linux kernel file
limits and recompiled the kernel, but when the squid autoconf runs, it
still says that only 256 file descripters are available. When I cat the
files in /proc/sys/.... I see that I have 1024 descripters.
Do I need to recompile glibc? Is there something else I am missing?
tia

Kelly Prescott
Received on Sun Aug 02 1998 - 07:22:03 MDT