Re: Squid seems to "HANG UP"!

Ah. You're running 2.2.6...Hmm. There's also a problem with that kernel
(and with several of the 2.2.x kernels before 2.2.10 (I think)) where
the entire network subsystem stalls from time-to-time. That could be
clouding the issue as well.

D

Sarah Rodriguez wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply Michael ....
>
> hmmm .. I am using slackware 4.0 and the Linux kernel is 2.2.6 (i think this
> is the latest). How would I increase the file descriptors for squid ....
> and inodes?... I'm used to administering linux but i think I'm new to file
> descriptors and inodes ... because I never had problems with this before.
>
> just to add another observation .... after the problem starts ... I can
> still ping eth1 (172.16.12.251) .... but it seems not to respond to my
> client's http request while connecting to 172.16.12.251:8085 ... but after a
> while (maybe 5 minutes) .... it works fine again.
>
> thanks again ... hope you can assist me with the descriptors ...
>
> >> I think somewhere ... I am running out of some resources which I still
> don't
> >> know what.
> >
> >Sounds to me like like you're running out of filedescriptors... Have you
> >increased the number available to squid, and what linux kernel version are
> >you running?
> >
> >
> >Michael.
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Received on Wed Sep 15 1999 - 18:18:00 MDT