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From: Devin Smith <devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org>
To: Girnet Vladimir <VGirnet@megadat.com>
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Subject: Re: squid + files descriptors
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In-Reply-To: <8E9035BABCA0514EB0E574B6A7082FC305308B@sln01.megadat.com>; from VGirnet@megadat.com on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:17:18PM +0200
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:17:18PM +0200, Girnet Vladimir wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have been setup absolut identically hosts with FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE to run
> SQUID 2.4 on them.
> 
> But on one host I got this warning:
> " WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors" , and squid is not
> working.
> 
> When I compare both cache.log files I found this difference: 
>  on first machine:
>  With 4136 file descriptors available
> 
>  on second machine:
>  With 1064 file descriptors available
> 
> I set up same configuration of kernel on both computers, with MAXUSERS=128,
> and:
>  
> kern.maxvnodes: 72477
> kern.maxproc: 8212
> kern.maxfiles: 16424
> kern.maxfilesperproc: 16424
> kern.maxprocperuid: 8211
> 
> Please, help to solve this problem! Why so little file descriptors?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Vladimir Girnet
> Network & System Engineer NOC "MOLDOVA-ON-LINE" NET
> mailto:vgirnet@megadat.com
> www.mdl.net
> 

If the two machines are actually in production, it sounds like the one
is caching more files than the other.

fix it by issuing as root sysctl=kern.maxfiles=32768

--devin

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