Re: [squid-users] Running out of file descriptors OSX

greetings
this is one of the problems. there is no setting ( that i can find )
for kern.maxfilesperproc here are the numbers that come back.
kern.maxvnodes = 33584
  kern.maxproc = 2048
  kern.maxfiles = 12288
  kern.argmax = 65536

On an OSX machine there is no sysctl.conf ( not that i can find ).

nor can i locate /usr/include/bits
this may seem to be an Apple lists question. I thought someone might
have known off hand.

--jeff
On May 24, 2004, at 2:50 PM, Arthur W. Neilson III wrote:

> On FreeBSD the number of systemwide file descriptors and
> number of file descriptors per process is controlled
> via the following sysctls, respectively:
>
> kern.maxfiles
> kern.maxfilesperproc
>
> You can set them in /etc/sysctl.conf then reboot
>
> kern.maxfiles=65534
> kern.maxfilesperproc=8192
>
> or use the sysctl command to set them dynamically:
>
> sysctl kern.maxfiles=65534
> sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc=8192
>
>
> --On Monday, May 24, 2004 8:40 PM +0430 alireza@panaisp.net said:
> | You can increase it by "ulimit -HSn 'NEW VALUE'. and after that
> recompile
> | the squid. Whenever you want to run squid , first you should execute
> that
> | command again.you can edit /usr/include/bits/type.h (on some linux
> branch
> | like Redhat 9,you should edit /usr/include/bits/typesizes.h) and
> change
> | the line "#define __FD_SETSIZE" to new value like 8192 and then
> recompile
> | the squid.All the above tricks are about linux,i am not sure about
> | freebsd, but you can test it.
> |>
> |> Help.
> |> It seems that i am pushing this machine to it's limit.
> |> i have been running Squid for over a year with great success. I am
> |> running on an Apple 1.2ghz Xserve, 2g ram and 2 180g hd's
> |>
> |> the system is throwing errors about running out of file descriptors
> and
> |> and queueing redirector processes. Eventually, a couple times a day
> |> Squid willl drop all connections and rebuild the cache.
> |>
> |> I read the docs on the increasing the file descriptors. In loading
> it
> |> says i have 1024. i don't know where to look on a Darwin system for
> the
> |> file descriptors.
> |> I used the FreeBSD sysctl -A and that output did not display "
> |> kern.maxfilesperproc ".
> |>
> |> I would Assume that there would be a number matching 1024 somewhere
> to
> |> edit.
> |>
> |> I have included my log files, and the output of the sysctl -A. Sorry
> |> that they are so long, but i need to "tweak" this machine to keep it
> |> from reloading.
> |> If anyone can give me some insight on how to correct this problem I
> |> would be very thankful.
> |>
> |>
> |>
> |> --jeff
> |>
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Received on Tue May 25 2004 - 05:56:23 MDT