Hello,

> On 18 Aug 2021, at 17:42, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 16.08.2021 11:40, Michael Tremer wrote:
> ...
>>> What makes me wonder: during build, 'squid' says it can open '32768',
>>> during start its '4096'. If someone knows why, please enlighten me... ;-)
>> 4096 is the default maximum number of files any process can open at the same.
>> 
>> This is to protect the system from going crazy by having too many open files (because I think the file descriptor table used to be of a static size in older versions of the kernel).
>> 
>>>> I suppose this is enough and I can live with 32k. We should remove the field from the UI then.
>>> Me too, but are 4096 enough?
>> No. I don’t know why the squid team isn’t handling this better. We are hitting this problem every time we update to a new version.
>> 
>> I suppose this is fine for testing.
>> 
>> You can try adding “ulimit -n 32768” to the squid init script and then it should be able to open up to 32k files.
> ...
> 
> Thanks for the clarification - I tested this with 'squid 5.1'. It seems
> to work:
> 
> ...
> case "1$" in
> 	start)
> 	ulimit -n 32768
> 	getpids "squid"
> ...

What is “getpids” good for?

Adding the ulimit call to the initscript and removing the configuration option from the CGI script is fine with me.

> For my 'cache_peer' problem I opened a bug report
> (https://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5147). Work in progress.

I didn’t get it, but I am sure you know what you are doing :)

It is good to work together with upstream.

-Michael

> 
> Best,
> Matthias