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 > > >
