RE: [squid-users] running out of filedescriptors

After a little skull sweat, checking of the SQUID FAQ, and temporarily making my system unbootable (!!), I have successfully gotten my squid to boot with 4096 file descriptors.

Thanks!

Mike Jacobi

-----Original Message-----
From: Lightfoot.Michael [mailto:Lightfoot.Michael@comcare.gov.au]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 8:12 PM
To: Squid Mailing List
Subject: FW: [squid-users] running out of filedescriptors

Oops! Meant to copy this to the list in case others have comments or
corrections...

> > If I get this correctly, all I have to do is to change the
> > entry in TYPES.H to 4096 or greater, recompile squid, make
> > sure that when squid is run the process has at least 4096
> > file descriptors and all should be fine... Right?
> >
> Hmmm, as my memory of things I did three years ago is likely
> to be faulty, I went and looked at the source code and found
> the following:
>
> In /usr/local/src/squid-2.5.STABLE1-20021028/include there is
> a file autoconf.h which should have lines similar to:
>
> /* Default FD_SETSIZE value */
> #define DEFAULT_FD_SETSIZE 1024
>
> /* Maximum number of open filedescriptors */
> #define SQUID_MAXFD 1024
>
> (at line 189 in mine - YMWV)
>
> To build a squid with more than 1024 FDs available you have
> to change both(?) of these to match your target system.
> These numbers are obtained from checking the ulimit on the
> system upon which squid is compiled.
>
> If you need more FDs defined on your target system, you will
> need to do what Brian says for Linux (I assume) or simply set
> stuff in /etc/system on Solaris (in my case.)
>
> Note also that if your dev system is your target system, it
> is simpler (and more maintainable) to change the OS settings
> for FDs and re-run configure.
>
>
>
>
> Michael Lightfoot
> Unix Consultant
> ISG Host Systems
> Comcare
> +61 2 62750680
> Apologies for the rubbish that follows...
>
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