With Squid 2.7 Stable 3 I'm getting this warning in cache.log:
Your cache is running out of filedescriptors
File descriptors are 1024 infact when squid starts, it says:
Starting Squid Cache version 2.7.STABLE3 for i386-debian-linux-gnu...
2010/03/04 12:53:24| Process ID xxx
2010/03/04 12:53:24| With 1024 file descriptors available
Received on Thu Mar 04 2010 - 11:57:25 MST
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