Re: Counting fds at startup

Ian Redfern wrote:

> I run several Squids on various Linux boxes, some with kernel
> patches, some without. It would be help me greatly if I could
> use one binary for all of them, and mean I could use an
> off-the-shelf Squid from a distribution.

You should be able to run a Squid compiled for many filedescriptors on a
machine that don't. Squid asks the kernel for the filedescriptor limits
on startup and if this limit is smaller that the compiled limit then the
kernel limit are used.

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Henrik Nordström
Sparetime Squid Hacker