Re: [squid-users] Unable to increase filedescriptor limit -- tried all things

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008, bijayant kumar wrote:
> I have already entered that line
>
> cat /etc/security/limits.conf | grep nofile
> * hard nofile 8192
>
> No luck till now. I am restarting squid several times
> to avoid the slow browsing.

I'd go and ask someone on the gentoo lists at this point to find out
what you can do to make sure the ulimit is properly extended.

Adrian

>
> -- Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008, bijayant kumar wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > bijayant@bijayant ~ $ ulimit -n
> > > 1024
> >
> > Thats your problem.
> >
> > Check your pam security file. under ubuntu its:
> >
> > adrian@cindy:~$ cat /etc/security/limits.conf | grep
> > nofile
> > # - nofile - max number of open files
> > * hard nofile 8192
> >
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> > >
> > > I have tried to change this via giving the command
> >
> > > ulimit -HSn 8192
> > >
> > > /usr/include/bits/typesizes.h
> > > /* Number of descriptors that can fit in an
> > `fd_set'.
> > > */
> > > #define __FD_SETSIZE 8192
> > >
> > > rebooted my machine several times, also
> > > cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> > > 11032
> > >
> > > I am using gentoo.
> > > --- Ding Deng <ding.deng@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > bijayant kumar <bijayant4u@yahoo.com> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > I have tried it also, but in log files it
> > still
> > > > saying
> > > > > 1024 file descriptors available. while squid
> > is
> > > > > compile with 8192.
> > > >
> > > > ulimit -n
> > > >
> > > > What's the output?
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Bijayant Kumar
> > >
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> Bijayant Kumar
>
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