----- Original Message -----
> From: Sandrini Christian (xsnd) <x...@zhaw.ch>
> To: "squid-users@squid-cache.org" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013 3:29 PM
> Subject: [squid-users] squid running out of filedescriptors
>
> Hi
>
>
> Today squid was suddenly running at 100% CPU and a lot of "running out of
> filedescriptors" messages in the cache.log. But if I look with squidclient
> it only had 989 of 65k filedescriptors open.
> Is there something else I need to look at? I am using squid-3.2.6 on Centos
> 6.3
I recently had same problems. I figured that the 65k figure shown by squid
is not what it actually gets from OS. But what it expects from OS.
In your case too OS limit is 1024 (just like in my case).
Solution to problem is here: (should work on centos)
http://www.mail-archive.com/squid-users@squid-cache.org/msg88082.html
OR
http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/201302/0142.html
