Re: MAXFD frustrations

According to Henrik Nordstrom:
> Still true. See http://devel.squid-cache.org/hno/linux-lfd.html
>
> Short version: Increasing the FD_SETSIZE on Linux requires hand-editing
> the __FD_SETSIZE definition /usr/include/bits/types.h and to set the
> ulimit in your shell... The kernel is neutral, the C library is
> neutral, but the include files are not...

There is a way which I'm using in the squid-2.4 Debian package. It's
ugly and it assumes too much knowledge about the glibc include
files but it does work. Patch is attached.

Ofcourse you need to up ulimit -n before running configure, that
is 1024 by default and can only be increased by root.

The fix I use for *that* is that in the debian packaging build scripts
I run configure first and then I use sed to change SQUID_MAXFD to 4096.
This works fine, squid tests the ulimit value at startup anyway and if
it's lower at runtime it will use the lower value.

> It probably would also be wise to bugger the GNU Libc people a little
> about making FD_SETSIZE configurable like most other OS:es..

True.

Mike.

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