On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there any way to increase SQUID_MAXFD from 8192 to 65536, so I can > > try using the sugested number of url_rewriter processes? > > > > Squid 2.6: --with-maxfd=65536 > Squid 3.x: --with-filedescriptors=65536 At the time I was not sure this would work, but I recompiled squid with this option and it's working now. > For our info, you say you are handling thousands of users; > and what release of squid is it? Gentoo Linux 2007.0 Kernel 2.6.20.14 TProxy 2.0.6 Squid 2.6.STABLE17 > what request/sec load is your squid maxing out at? Number of clients accessing cache: 3493 Average HTTP requests per minute since start: 1882.1 client_http.requests = 367.345547/sec Maximum number of file descriptors: 16384 Largest file desc currently in use: 13115 Number of file desc currently in use: 12885 Available number of file descriptors: 3499 cpu_usage = 20.541035% > Please use Squid 2.6STABLE19 or 3.0STABLE4 I had lots of problems matching kernel, squid and tproxy versions, but I will try to upgrade to 2.6.STABLE19. Thanks for your help, Marcio.
