Increasing file descriptors with Linux (again :-()

RedHat Linux 6.0, Kernel 2.2.12, Squid-2.2.STABLE4

Thanks for the responses to my previous post on this, I got a pointer to
Henrik's web page documenting how to get more file descriptors for
squid. What I did was:

1) get a fresh copy of linux-2.2.12, configure required drivers etc,
compile & install
2) echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max (ulimit wouldn't work without
this)
3) ulimit -SHn 4096
4) make distclean ; ./configure --enable-snmp
   ...
   Default FD_SETSIZE value... 1024,
   Maximum number of filedescriptors we can open... 4096
   ...
5) make install

Then, from the same shell (ie ulimit -n = 4096) I started squid and
looked in cache.log, where it claims: 'With 1024 file descriptors
available'. Not what I'd expected (on some Digital UNIX boxes here squid
reports 4096 file descriptors, I thought that's what I had in Linux now
too).

So it looks like I've stuffed up somewhere, anyone care to enlighten me?

Thanks,

Simon

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