Re: [squid-users] File Descriptors

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 22.22, Paul.Fiero@ci.austin.tx.us wrote:

> runtime information page it shows squid seeing 1024 file
> descriptors available.
>
> Do I need to recompile squid to fix this?

Most likely yes.

The ulimit set when you compile Squid is built into the Squid binary
and this binary can not support higher amounts of filedescriptors
than the ulimit was.

Note: There is a CPU penalty if the limit is set way too high.

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