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FreeBSD Squid Proxy Caching Server Increase File Descriptors Limits

in FreeBSD, Networking, Squid last updated June 18, 2009

I‘m getting an error which read as follows under FreeBSD 7.2 server and Squid stable caching server:

WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors

How do I fix this problem and increase the number of system-wide available filedescriptors for FreeBSD server?

Squid Proxy WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors error and solution

in BASH Shell, CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, File system, Linux, Monitoring, Networking, RedHat and Friends, Squid, Troubleshooting, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX last updated June 18, 2009

I’ve Squid Proxy server with over 100 Windows workstation. I see following error message in my cache.log file – “WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors”. Do I need to filter proxy server requests to avoid this problem? How do I fix this problem under CentOS / Fedora / RHEL / Debian Linux?