Re: freebsd 3.2 and squid 2.2.3

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Clifton Royston wrote:

> mlowe@dataline.net.au writes:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have recently tried freebsd for our proxy, and its wonderful.
> >
> > Except its always complaining of 'your running out of filedescriptors' when
> > I check in cachemgr.cgi we have 1064 avail, and usually only about 400-500
> > inuse when this error occurs.
>
> You probably need to do an "unlimit openfiles" before starting squid to
> avoid squid running into limits which the OS places on various
> resources, to avoid user processes taking over the entire system. You
> may also need to unlimit various memory settings. Try "man unlimit",
> and figure out which of the various system limits may apply to you.
>
> This is actually a very useful feature in the BSD family, though it can
> be a nuisance to those encountering it for the first time.

The latter probably explains why FreeBSD 3.1 (and later?) comes with
"unlimited" default settings in login.conf. :)

Alex.
Received on Thu Aug 05 1999 - 12:46:34 MDT