Raising Number Of File Descriptors To 8192

debloxie · 12-18-2006, 04:30 AM

Hello there,

am using Fedora Core 4 with a default of 1024 of system filedesciptors as with most distros. Am using squid and on Redhat 9 i alwasy increase the number of filedescriptors to 8192 from the default 1024 just in case the load gets high. I perform the usual ulimit stuff as described in the squid FAQ site ( http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq...9c235e59f50bc5 ) before installing squid.

I have found this not to have worked on the Fedora Core 4 i have even after performing all rituals which worked for RH9.

Is there a way out of this on fedora 4 ?

Thanks

edenCC · 12-18-2006, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by debloxie

Hello there,

am using Fedora Core 4 with a default of 1024 of system filedesciptors as with most distros. Am using squid and on Redhat 9 i alwasy increase the number of filedescriptors to 8192 from the default 1024 just in case the load gets high. I perform the usual ulimit stuff as described in the squid FAQ site ( http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq...9c235e59f50bc5 ) before installing squid.

I have found this not to have worked on the Fedora Core 4 i have even after performing all rituals which worked for RH9.

Is there a way out of this on fedora 4 ?

Thanks

there're two points to change the normal user's max open-file limit
root# echo 60000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
root# echo "* - nofile 60000" > /etc/security/limits.conf
and then, relogin. the ulimit -n will change to 60000, that's will be enough for a cache env.

debloxie · 12-18-2006, 10:37 AM

Hi EdenCC,

i saw the value 63726 in the /proc/sys/fs/file-max folder wch is more than 60,000, so i left it ok

then i echoed the second value to limits.conf and that did the trick with having 60000 as output of ulimit -n

but this valued didnt show up in my squid reports, it still show 1024, do i need to restart the system or squid itself?

Cheers