> > I am at 8192 File Descriptors, but am still running out, so I am moving > > to 16,000 next. I just need to know the ramifications of what I am > > doing. > > Quite likely you have some other problem with the filedescriptor problem > only being a side effect. 8K filedescriptors is well more than plenty for > any Squid I have seen. > > How many clients do you have on this proxy? > > Try > > half_closed_clients off > quick_abort_min 0 > quick_abort_max 0 > pipeline_prefetch off > I had same experience last year. Henrik suggestion is correct. One of our user was infected by NIMDA and consume all filedescriptors. After edit the squid.conf to "half_closed_clients off" Squid run normal. Thx & Rgds, Awie