Re: [squid-users] FileDescriptor Issues

Thanks Amos for this tip I will try that and keep you posted
Regards
Adam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
To: <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] FileDescriptor Issues

> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:19:40 -0000, "Adam_at_Gmail" <adbasque_at_googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>> Thanks Ivan for your suggestion
>> But in my case it's slightly different
>> I have no squid in
>>
>> /etc/default/squid
>>
>>
>> /etc/init.d/mine is located in /usr/local/squid/sbin/squidunless I try
>> this/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid
>> SQUID_MAXFD=4096
>>
>
> /etc/default/squid is a configuration file for configuring the system
> init.d/squid script.
> It does not exist normally, you create it only when overrides are needed.
>
> .../sbin/squid is supposed to be the binary application which gets run.
>
>> And then restart it, but I am not sure I am using Ubuntu HardyI think
> this
>> tip is for the Squid that is packaged with Ubuntu and not the
>> compiledSquid
>
> Bash environment shells resets the descriptors down again towards 1024
> each time a new one is generated. It _always_ must be increased to the
> wanted limit before running Squid. Whether you do it manually on the
> command line each time, or in the init.d script, or in some other custom
> starter script.
>
>
> My Ubuntu systems show default OS limits of just over 24K FD available.
>
> Building Squid with:
> ulimit -HSn 65535 && ./configure --with-filedescriptors=65535 ...
> make install
>
> starting: squid -f /etc/squid.conf
> squid shows 1024
>
> starting: ulimit -Hsn 64000 && squid -f /etc/squid.conf
> squid shows 64000
>
> Amos
Received on Tue Mar 23 2010 - 03:09:48 MDT