Re: file descripters

Kelly Prescott wrote:
>
> Could someone point me to some documentation on making more file
> descripters available to squid 1.1.22. I changed my Linux kernel file
> limits and recompiled the kernel, but when the squid autoconf runs, it
> still says that only 256 file descripters are available. When I cat the
> files in /proc/sys/.... I see that I have 1024 descripters.
> Do I need to recompile glibc? Is there something else I am missing?
> tia
>
> Kelly Prescott

The patches to the kernel should also change a couple of your libc
headers. You should also do something like:

echo 16384 > /proc/sys/kernel/file-max

..to increase the system-wide limit (which is a soft-limit) as opposed
to the per-process limits (a hard limit that you patched around).

D

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