Hey people Actually the reverse proxy is working correctly, but if some higher load is given, squid starts screaming out error messages: 2005/02/23 18:06:31| WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors 2005/02/23 18:06:31| comm_open: socket failure: (24) Too many open files this repeats over 100 times lsof output: localhost / # lsof | wc -l 1285 Netstat output: localhost / # netstat -an | wc -l 6136 ulimit -n open files (-n) 967512 I'm running gentoo on this box uname -a : Linux localhost 2.6.7-hardened-r18 #4 SMP Tue Jan 18 14:36:55 CET 2005 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux What do I need to increase that squid can handle that traffic ? best regards oliver