> As I said - > > The running configure / make / compile environment has to > be set to > 64k file descriptors. The build environment's max > file descriptors > are an overriding limit on the actual usable FDs, no matter > what you > set the configure maxfd value to. If ulimit -n = 1024 > at configure > time, that's what you're stuck at. > > # ulimit -HSn 32768 (or 64k) ; ./configure (options...) ; > make > I did just that. I created a script with ulimit -HSn 32768 at the beginning and reconfigured and installed. Now it looks like this: 0:00:17| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.STABLE21 for i686-pc-linux-gnu... 2010/02/10 20:00:17| Process ID 15870 2010/02/10 20:00:17| With 32768 file descriptors available Let's test for a week or so and see if it doesn't fail. Thanks for the help.