Replying to myself, but it appears that this package was compiled using '--max-fd=16384'. Is there anyway, other than re-compiling and building new packages, to increase beyond this? Josh -----Original Message----- From: squid-users [mailto:squid-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Baird, Josh Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 8:46 PM To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Unable to increase max_filedescr Hi, I'm running 2.6STABLE (yes, I know it's ancient) and I'm unable to increase max_filedescr beyond 16384. # grep max_file /etc/squid/squid.conf max_filedesc 32768 # ulimit -n 32678 # squidclient -p 80 mgr:info | grep 'Maximum number' Maximum number of file descriptors: 16384 I have restarted squid, re-logged back in, etc. I'm able to modify it to be anything less than 16384. Any idea what is preventing me from scaling beyond 16384? This is RHEL5. Thanks, Josh _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users