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Subject: Re: cygwin and squid - RLIMIT_NOFILE
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On 12/3/2007 2:51 PM, jameshanley39 AT yahoo DOT co DOT 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/

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