Re: [squid-users] Filedescriptors

Joe Cooper wrote:

> I'll repeat that you don't really need more than 4000 file descriptors.
> I usually give it 8192, but I've never needed more than 3k even on
> hardware that would crush what you're working with (2.4GHz, 3 x 15k RPM
> disks, 2GB of DDR RAM). Worth mentioning is the fact that the monster
> I've just described is the first Squid machine I've ever seen sustain
> 350 reqs/sec. for more than half an hour.

I have seen some Squids sustain higher loads for long periods of time on
relatively modest hardware, but never with caching enabled..

With caching, the limit is reached much before this.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Sep 11 2002 - 05:45:59 MDT