[squid-users] too many open files / Queue congestion

Hello there.
I don't know if the two problems I'm facing are related, but here an
excerpt of my cache.log:

2006/05/18 13:07:26| comm_open: socket failure: (24) Too many open files
2006/05/18 13:07:29| WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors
2006/05/18 13:09:37| squidaio_queue_request: WARNING - Queue congestion

What do these things mean? What is the solution for this faulty behaviour?

I'm on Debian old-stable (Woody), kernel 2.4.27 and squid 2.5.9-5woody1.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Regards,

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