Re: WARNING!

I said kernel 2.2 which is already set for 1024. To make it visible to
squid if this value is changed then squid sees this and compiled for 1024
fds!

Irfan Akber

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> From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <list-squid@news.cistron.nl>
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Re: WARNING!
> Date: Friday, May 28, 1999 11:51 AM
>
> In article <cistron.199905281953.PAA04905@mail.inet.com.pk>,
> Irfan Akber <irfan@inet.com.pk> wrote:
> >Is it under Linux ? If yes then change the value of NR_OPEN to 1024 in
the
> >source code of Linux 2.2 kernel.
>
> BAD advice!
>
> 1. Linux 2.2 already has 1024 filedescriptors per process
> 2. Linux 2.0 doesn't, but you cannot just change some constants-
> it will _seem_ to work but fail at 300-400 filedescriptors.
> You need a special patch (filehandle.patch.linux)
>
> Just use an unmodified 2.2.x kernel (as long as x > 2 and x != 5 and x !=
8)
>
> Mike.
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Received on Mon May 31 1999 - 03:09:34 MDT