Re: [squid-users] Re: running out of filedescriptors in squid-2.5.PRE*

bashrc is probably not being run by your Squid startup script. It
probably has its own environment.

Add the 'ulimit -HSn' line to your Squid startup script (or wherever you
are starting Squid).

Jack wrote:
> Hello Joe and Henrik,
>
> My cache.log shows squid has taken only 1024 fds
> Process ID 608
> With 1024 file descriptors available
>
> How can i set max_fd as 16384 in boot time as i made squid to start in boot
> time itself.
>
> What i done to increase fd in boottime itself as
> #vi /usr/include/bits/types.h
> #define__FD_SET SIZE 16384
>
> #/etc/security/limits.conf
> squid soft nofile 16384
> squid hard nofile 16384
>
> #/etc/bashrc
> ulimit -HSn 16384 > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> Is it correct or i missed somethink.
>
> Thanks
> Jack
>
>
>>Also, is there any hint as to why it is running out of filedescriptors if
>
> you
>
>>look into the filedescriptor usage of Squid?
>>
>> client mgr:filedescriptors
>>
>>Regards
>>Henrik
>>
>>
>>Joe Cooper wrote:
>>
>>>How many available file descriptors does Squid tell you it has?
>>>
>>>client mgr:info
>>>
>>>Will tell you.
>>>
>>>What request rate?
>>>
>>>Jack wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello Joe,
>>>>I installed squid in Redhat linux-7.1 kernel-2.4.17 in p-III 600 MHz
>>>
> with
>
>>>>762 MB RAM.
>>>>I test squid-2.5.PRE5 with polygraph
>>>>I get error as
>>>>WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors
>>>>in cache log.
>>>>
>>>>I configured squid with aufs 20 threads.
>>>>My cache_dir entry as
>>>>cache_dir aufs /cache0 6000 14 256
>>>>cache_dir aufs /cache1 6000 14 256
>>>>
>>>>ulimit -a shows
>>>>core file size (blocks) 1000000
>>>>data seg size (kbytes) unlimited
>>>>file size (blocks) unlimited
>>>>max locked memory (kbytes) unlimited
>>>>max memory size (kbytes) unlimited
>>>>open files 16384
>>>>pipe size (512 bytes) 8
>>>>stack size (kbytes) 16384
>>>>cpu time (seconds) unlimited
>>>>max user processes 6143
>>>>virtual memory (kbytes) unlimited
>>>>
>>>>i checked config.status in squid
>>>>
>>>
> ${ac_dA}DEFAULT_FD_SETSIZE${ac_dB}DEFAULT_FD_SETSIZE${ac_dC}16384${ac_dD}
>
> ${ac_uA}DEFAULT_FD_SETSIZE${ac_uB}DEFAULT_FD_SETSIZE${ac_uC}16384${ac_uD}
>
> ${ac_eA}DEFAULT_FD_SETSIZE${ac_eB}DEFAULT_FD_SETSIZE${ac_eC}16384${ac_eD}
>
>>>>${ac_dA}SQUID_MAXFD${ac_dB}SQUID_MAXFD${ac_dC}16384${ac_dD}
>>>>${ac_uA}SQUID_MAXFD${ac_uB}SQUID_MAXFD${ac_uC}16384${ac_uD}
>>>>${ac_eA}SQUID_MAXFD${ac_eB}SQUID_MAXFD${ac_eC}16384${ac_eD}
>>>>
>>>>i tried with all squid-2.5.PRE* versions.
>>>>
>>>>I want to use tcp_outgoing option to specifiy acl which is only in
>>>>squid-2.5.PRE thats why i went to PRE version.
>>>>
>>>>What configuration should i want to change
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>Jack
>>>
>
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