Hi, On squid proxy using the stock Ubuntu squid packages, the file descriptors need to be increased. I found two suggestions: http://chrischan.blog-city.com/ubuntu_804_lts_increasing_squid_file_descriptors.htm but ulimit -n was still 1024 after rebooting. (and it also talks about recompiling squid with --with-filedescriptors=8192, but Id prefer to keep the stock ubuntu package if possible). This link: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/squid-proxy-server-running-out-filedescriptors/ suggests alternative settings in /etc/security/limits.conf but "ulimit -a | grep 'open files'" still says 1024 There was also a suggestion found to set a value in /proc/sys/fs/file-max, but the current value was already 392877 Finally, the second article suggests (for red hat) just setting max_filedesc 4096 in squid.conf and this actually works, i.e. "squidclient -p 80 mgr:info | grep 'file descri'" reports 4096 So my question: is the squid.conf sufficent? How is the squid setting related to ulimit, if at all? Thanks in advance, Sean
