ogu, I have almost the same setup and I have et ulimit to 16384 and it works well. the issue of "Running out of FD" is gone. Daniel On 3/23/06, Logu <logsnaath@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > I am using squid-2.5.STABLE12 in FC4 with kernel version 2.6. i have a 2GB > of RAM in my machine. I frequently get error message saying running out of > file Descriptors. So i am planning to recompile squid by increasing the > file-max and setting ulimit. I am not clear what value should I set for > them. I am planning to assign 32768. What are the drawbacks if I set it to > very high value. > > Thanks > -ogu > > -- Much Regards, Daniel Epee Lea