On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:42, Mike Rambo wrote: > We're running squid-2.4.STABLE7-2mdk on Mandrake Linux release 9.0 > (dolphin) for i586. It's been running ok for a few weeks. I noticed this > morning numerous "WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors" > errors in cache.log. > > Googling didn't come up with anything definitive. I did find a couple > of ML messages about editing a header file in squid and recompiling but > I hesitate to embark upon that adventure without knowing for sure that > it is really related to my problem. > > Does anyone have any experience with this problem or know what that > error refers to? >
Do you know if this is an application limit or one in the Linux kernel? What does your /proc/sys/fs/file-max value show? Are you approaching this value? Also, try doing a 'ulimit -a' from the squid user account and check if the 'open files' value is small.
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