max-age and running out of filedescriptors

Hi,

I am using Squid v2.2STABLE4 on RedHead Linux. I have two questions:

1. In my web server reply, I have HTTP header 'Cache-Control: max-age=30'.
None of the objects is cached as long as the max-age<= 60 seconds. If
I increase max-age to 61, it worked fine. The system time is in sync. Does
this mean Squid can not cache object for less than 1 minute? Or I need
to try other cache control header?

2. I have 500 users sending request to Squid. After 10 minutes running,
I got the message 'WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors'
and 'sslReadClient: FD 686: read failure: (104) Connection reset by peer'.
And user got 'can not connect to server' error. What are the possible reasons
for that?

Thanks in advance.

Jenny Zhang
Received on Thu Jan 13 2000 - 13:14:00 MST