X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:07:38 -0800 From: David Rothenberger Subject: Re: cygwin and squid - RLIMIT_NOFILE In-reply-to: To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <47548C3A.4070705@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 12/3/2007 2:51 PM, jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [snip] > $ squid -N > FATAL: setrlimit: RLIMIT_NOFILE: (24) Too many open files > > This is a classic error described a few times on the mailing list. > > So.. > has anybody managed this?!!! > and how?! Is there any reason not to use the Windows-native squid binaries[1]? I thought about trying to package squid-2.6 for Cygwin because of the problems you mention, but when I noticed the Windows-native binaries I decided it wasn't worth the effort. [1] http://www.acmeconsulting.it/SquidNT/ -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth@acm.org "You know, we've won awards for this crap." -- David Letterman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/