Hi, I'm opening a new thread realted to my previous post here: http://lists.squid-cache.org/pipermail/squid-users/2017-August/016233.html I'm doing so because the subject is more specific now. I'm obviously having trouble with file descriptors since I'm gettign the following message in the log on a regular basis. WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors Sometimes, but not always, I also get the message "WARNING: Consider increasing the number of ssl_crtd processes in your config file". I've upped twice now the value of "children", but I'm still getting the same warnigns and performance issues. Here are some values: external_acl_type bllookup ttl=86400 children-max=100 ... sslcrtd_children 128 startup=20 idle=4 I also increased nofiles in ulimit: # ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 127521 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 4096 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 127521 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited If I run "lsof" I get a huge listing. I could keep increasing the ulimit nofiles and squid "children" values, but I'd like to know if I'm on the right path or not. What do you suggest? I appreciate any tip you can share. Regards, Vieri _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users