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

You need to set ulimit -n <newlimit> before you compile and
run Squid. Maybe you don't need to do it before compilation
these days, I forget.

ulimit -n 32768
check ulimit -a
Then ./configure
make
make install
put ulimit -n 32768 in the startup script
start squid
check cachemgr "info" page and/or the cache.log; it'll say how many
file descriptors its starting with.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008, bijayant kumar wrote:
> 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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