Questions on file descriptors and squid

[Dancho Penev]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:17:18PM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:17:18 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra at yahoo.com>
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Questions on file descriptors and squid
>
>Good day,
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>   I have a pc which I am going to turn into one of
>our siblings proxy servers. The squid book says, the
>file descriptor values should not go below 1024.
>
>Qestion1: Do you know how do freebsd 4.10 sets its
>default(fresh install) file descriptor value? For
>example, here are the components of the workstation I
>am installing squid into.
>
>Pentium III 600 MHz
>64 MB SD RAM
>15 GB hard disk
>
>When I run 'sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc' this value
>appeared:
>
>kern.maxfilesperproc: 957
>
>so, it already violates the squids recommended
>settings which should be not less than 1024 file
>descriptor(Squid: The Definitive Guide -Duane
>Wessels). 
>
>On the other hand, another workstation of mine with
>the following components...
>
>256 DDR PC333
>Athlon XP 2000
>80 GB seagate harddisk
>
>...shows its file descriptor as
>
>beebop>>sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc
>        kern.maxfilesperproc: 3636
>
>Qestion2: both of the kern.maxfiles and
>kern.maxfilesperproc's values are changeable and so, 
>how will I know what is the maximum value I can set
>them to(with regards to my hardware setup)? 
>
>
>

All these variables depend on maxusers option in your kernel config
file. Look at /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_param.c to find how they are
calculated.

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