Re: [squid-users] high response time in the case of high file descriptor usage

[K Pang]

thanks. may i know how to check the memory status of squid? how to decide 
whether squid is running out of memory? thanks a lot.

From: "Mark Elsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "K Pang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] high response time in the case of high file 
descriptor usage
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 05:36:07 +0200

> HI all,
>
> we're running squid-2.5.S13 on Linux 2.4.32, and we setted file 
descriptor
> to be 8k. we found that when file descriptor usage exceeds 2k, the 
response
> time will go obviously higher. e.g. response time for hit is 3+ seconds. 
my
> questions are:
> 1) is there any limitation on linux? should file descriptor usage above 
2k
> cause such long response time?
> 2) how to optimize the response time when file descriptor usage is high?
>
>

  - Check SQUID's mem. usage, make sure that your not running into
mem. constraints (not enough mem. for SQUID)

 - Check cache.log, for errors related to FD's or other, if any.

 M.