Hi John, It worked!
But according to the FAQ, I should tweak /usr/include/linux/limits.h That is why I was confused why it didn't work. Thanks to you all who helped. Regards, ------------------- Sent using Office 2003, Exchange Server 2000 and Windows XP Professional ------------------- -----Original Message----- From: John Arthur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 5:27 PM To: Michael Vincent Pozon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [squid-users] WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors (on RH 9.0 Squid2.5.Stable5) I sent this to the last a few days ago but it did not show appear. A quick rundown on increasing the number of file descriptors ------- ulimit -SHn 2048 grep -R __FD_SETSIZE /usr/include vi /usr/include/bits/typesizes.h and change #define __FD_SETSIZE 1024 to #define __FD_SETSIZE 2048 rebuild squid from scratch (configure, make etc......) put [ulimit -SHn 2048] in your squid start up script and you're in action I've just done this to build my own RPM of squid-2.5.STABLE5 with 2048 file descriptors. (Which I have not tested yet) to rebuild the redhat rpm for 4096 file descriptors rpm -i squid-2.4.STABLE7-4.src.rpm ulimit -SHn 4096 vi /usr/include/bits/typesizes.h (to change __FD_SETSIZE) cd /usr/src/redhat rpmbuild --clean -ba SPECS/squid.spec should do the job for you. (or pretty close) I would also recommend that you return __FD_SETSIZE to 1024 after you've built your RPM which should be in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 I would also suggest that you edit squid.spec & change Release: to 4.4096.8.0 so you will know which RPM is which. You should then finish up with squid-2.4.STABLE7-4.4096.8.0.i386.rpm John