Re: [squid-users] Unable to increase filedescriptor limit -- tried all things

If you are running squid-2 compile your squid
 with --with-fd=numberoffiledescriptors
 If you are running squid-3 compile your squid
with --with-filedescriptors=numberoffiledescriptors

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bijayant kumar" <bijayant4u@yahoo.com>
> To: "squid users" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:43 AM
> Subject: [squid-users] Unable to increase filedescriptor limit -- tried
> all things
>
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I am using squid as proxy server on gentoo box. All of
>> a sudden from
>> 2nd January in my cache.log i am seeing the error
>>
>> WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors
>>
>> When this messages repeats frequently, browsing
>> becomes dead slow in
>> 2mbps line. We have 2GB RAM, and 1 GB swap , dual
>> core processor system.
>>
>> After googling, checking Squid Faq i have tried to
>> increase the limit
>> of filedescriptors on my system. But i am not able to
>> do. Please help me
>> out. here i am giving some information for better
>> picture
>>
>> OS - gentoo
>> Kernel - 2.6.18-gentoo-r6
>> Squid - net-proxy/squid-2.6.12
>> USE Flags=ipf-transparent pam ssl
>>
>> I have changed the filedescriptors in
>> /usr/include/bits/typesizes.h
>>
>> Number of descriptors that can fit in an `fd_set'
>> #define __FD_SETSIZE 2048
>>
>>
>> In /etc/init.d/squid
>> ulimit -HSn 2048
>>
>> ~ $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
>> 50516
>>
>> The relevent part of /etc/squid/squid.conf after
>> search on google/faq
>>
>> client_persistent_connections off
>> server_persistent_connections off
>> cache_dir ufs /var/cache/squid 2000 16 256
>> url_rewrite_children 30
>>
>>
>> I did all things specified in Squid Wiki and Faq.
>> After that i have
>> recompiled the squid and rebooted my machine also
>> without any luck. I am
>> still getting the warning in my logs, and ulimit -n
>> as 1024.
>>
>> I have tried all possible things without any success.
>> Please help me or
>> give me some direction.
>>
>>
>>
>> Bijayant Kumar
>>
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>
Received on Thu Jan 24 2008 - 07:06:28 MST