[squid-users] How to determine the number of file descriptors for Squid?

Hi,

We are running Squid 2.5.STABLE3 version in http accelerator mode on a
dedicated Red Hat EL 3.0 server.

These are the settings for the size of the cache on the disk and in the
memory:

cache_dir ufs /spare/squid 7000 16 256
cache_mem 2 GB

The number of users at the pick is around 2000. We expect the number of
the users is going to increase in the future significantly.

I wonder if there is any way to estimate the number of file descriptors
for Squid based on the number mentioned above.

Also, I checked /usr/include/bits/types.h file looking for the definition

of __FD_SETSIZE. I could not find it. I assume I would need to define this

variable before compiling Squid. Am I right?

Thanks,

Dimitar
Received on Sat Sep 17 2005 - 10:46:53 MDT