Luis, Please define "Heavy Load", how manu req/s, is this a forward, transparent or reverse proxy ? is this a memory only cache ? what are the vmstat outputs when it stops responding ? did run the ulimit -n 16384 before start the squid ? Are there any error messages in the cache.log ? Regards, Pablo On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz <luis.daniel.lucio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Squids, > We are putting in a heavy load environment. my squid is getting tired, after > a while of load testing, 3128/tcp begins to stop responding (randomly) to > requests. All other ports at that servers responds ok > i've recompile my squid with 16k file handlers, but this does not seems to > help. Is there any other suggestion? > Regards, > LD >