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To: Mike Doyle <relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie>
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Subject: Re: Question about sysctl
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Mike Doyle wrote:

> I need a little pointer on the use of sysctl.
>
> Background to the problem:
>         This morning I noticed a warning on my server console
>         "... squid[pid]: WARNING!  Your cache is running out of file descriptors"
>
> Now this has never happened before.
> Reading the old questions/answers on the Squid website, it refered to a
> utility
> called "ulimit". But "man ulimit" on FreeBSD returns nothing.
>
> However I remembered the sysctl command, and one of the options sysctl
> can set/change is "kern.maxfiles" (currently 1576)
>
> Is this what I need to increase? If so, will I need to re-start the server
> afterwards? Or simply re-start Squid?
>
> I have never worried about this before now because the out-of-the-box
> configurations have "just worked" for the last three years...
>

hi,

I think you just have to type :
   sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=<what you want>
to make it work fine. You also need to put this line into your /etc/rc.sysctl to
make change after each reboot. You don't have to restart anything, even squid.






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