Matt wrote:

I was told I should increase the file descriptor limit which I beleive is 1024 now. Any easy way to do that?

googling 'linux increase file descriptors', first hit has information you need, http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/servers/openfiles.html

(note on my CentOS 4.4 system, it's currently set at 102661).

Sean

Matt wrote:

I installed Squid on CentOS 4.4 and currently it seems to run fine even under the relatively heavy load of 6mbps and hundreds of users. I was told I should increase the file descriptor limit which I beleive is 1024 now. Any easy way to do that?

If it;s running fine, what problem do you hope to fix?