I am using centos4, i read your post, but in my case it happens just in 30 mins all descriptors get used up, and squid is running but no file left. And this happened suddenly could be something to do with worm / network prob, happens on heavy usage. -----Original Message----- From: Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães [mailto:leolistas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 01 August 2008 17:59 To: Abdock Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: file descriptors and segmentation fault Abdock escreveu: > Hello, > > I have been running squid for long time, same config, squid-3.0-stable-7, > transparent mode. Jjust yesterday in the morning all the file descriptors > were used up, the graph showed slow decline in usage till none were left, > later on i restarted squid and it went ok for a while and then again the > file descriptors went low till none were left, and then i bypassed squid, > upgraded to the latest version, deleted cache files, restarted with the > latest squid3-stable8, after some time squid died with segmentation fault. > > Does this fault look familiar to anything happening with the squid box ? > > yes, pretty similar. I have filled a bug request some days ago reporting exactly the same problem with file descriptors you described. There's no solution yet, the bug is still opened. http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2424 -- Atenciosamente / Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues Solutti Tecnologia http://www.solutti.com.br Minha armadilha de SPAM, NÃO mandem email gertrudes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx My SPAMTRAP, do not email it