On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 02:12, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Need some advice, I can't seem to be able to locate resources which will > help me here. > > I'm building a squid server which will serve a _lot_ of clients. I want > to increase it's max-file-descriptors, much like the Tsunami > (http://www.swelltech.com/). > > I've tried looking for the _FD_SETSIZE_ but am unable to locate it. > > I've tried setting ulimit -HSn 8192 but upon squid startup, I keep > seeing the > > 1024 Max File Descriptors > > My /proc entries > cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max > 50956 > cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr > 6346 219 > cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr > 645 0 50956 > > They seem to be right. > > I've not resorted to re-compiling yet because based on my googling, I > need to change FD_SETSIZE.
After reading (http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#filedescriptors) I think my kernel 2.6 and this being squid 2.5, I don't need the FD_SETSIZE option. And I think I will try compiling on my own based on those instructions.
