Re: RED HAT + SQUID

From: Alvin Starr <alvin@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 13:48:48 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, A.Saeed wrote:

> Do the squid in Linux with filedescriptors = 256 work fine ?
>
> We are having the problems of slow performance of squid .We have changed
> the machine and went to new BRANDED machine but still at full load it
> starts to become very very slow , we are using linux RED HAT 4.2,
>
> Could anybody guide me.

We had the same problem. We had to increse the number of file descriptors
in the kernel from 1024 to 4096 and up'd the number a process could have
to 1024. The problem went away.

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