Hi, I'm using 8192 on a box just like yours with around peak traffic at 40Mbits....the normal status of the file descriptors on those peak times is 2200..... Kær kveðja / Best regards, Finnur Ö. Guðmundsson RHCE, Linux+, MCP System Engineer - System Operations fog@xxxx TM Software - Skyggnir Holtasmári 1, IS- 201 Kópavogur, Iceland tel: + 354 545 3000-fax + 354 545 3001 www.t.is This e-mail message and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please uphold strict confidentiality and neither read, copy, nor otherwise make use of the content in any way and notify sender immediately, by replying to this message or by sending an e-mail, and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. Any non work related opinions contained in this message are those of the author and are not given or endorsed by TM Software TölvuMyndir through which this message is sent. -----Original Message----- From: Daniel EPEE LEA [mailto:epeelea@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 13. mars 2006 19:17 To: Mark Elsen; squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: WCCP Transparent Proxy on High Volume network Hello, I have to rebuild squid because with mu initial setup, my server started "Running out of filedescriptors" . But I need to set the number of file descriptors "I desire to use". What is an acceptable number of file descriptors to allow ? (so then I do not rebuild squid again :( ) How do I determine the right value for my kernel and system ? I run RHEL v4 + 2.6.9-22.ELsmp #1 SMP + squid-2.5 Stable12 RAM 4Gig, Cache Size 40 Gigs and + Thanks for your answers, Regards Daniel On 3/13/06, Mark Elsen <mark.elsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had to start squid in prodcution network and to my supprise, it > > worked for about 1 minute, and then the messages bellow started > > flowing. In the WCCP router, more 10000 requests were forwarded > > after less than 1 minute!!!! (192.x.x.x/19 network) > > > > I noticed that cache server ran out of file descriptors, How to fix this ? > > > >.... > > http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.4 > > > M. > -- -------------------------- Daniel Epee Lea
