A MacOS X developer support forum is probably appropriate place for this 
kind of questions.

For Squid to use large amounts of filedescriptos it need to be able to 
redefine FD_SETSIZE at compile time.

Regards
Henrik

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, MM wrote:

> Hi again!
> 
> It's seems that noone on this list have a clue about this. But does 
> anyone know where you can turn to get some answers? Are there other 
> resources? Are there consultants that are experts in Squid? Yes we can 
> pay for some support. I guess this is the downside of Open Source...
> 
> Getting desperate... Are using Squid in production...
> 
> /Micke Moggia
> 
> 
> fredagen den 17 oktober 2003 kl 01.38 skrev MM:
> 
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Have seen in the FAQ and also in the mailarchives that running out of 
> > filedescriptors is not very uncommon. But I haven't seen anyone 
> > writing about this issue in Mac OSX Server.
> >
> > We run Squid as a http-accelerator and when our webserver is very 
> > busy, Squid keeps saying:
> >     WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors
> >
> > In Mac OS X Server when you run the command sysctl -a you see that:
> >     kern.maxfiles = 32768
> >
> > That is also recognized by Squid when you ./configure:
> >     checking Maximum number of filedescriptors we can open... 32768
> >
> > But the funny thing, is that when you start Squid, you see in the 
> > cache-log:
> >     With 1024 file descriptors available
> >
> > So, the problem here seems that Squid "forgets" that it has 32768 
> > filedescriptors when running...
> >
> > Can anyone advise?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Micke Moggia
> >
> 

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