Package: squid
Version: 4.6-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
/etc/init.d/squid increases the open file limit (ulimit -n 65535)
from the default value of 1024. This does not happen when squid
is started from systemd, resulting on busy systems in the
following errors in /var/log/squid/cache.log :
2019/08/08 09:59:19 kid1| WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors
Browsing is intermittently slow, or some pages fail to load.
This is easily fixed by the following patch, restoring the
pre-systemd behaviour:
--- /lib/systemd/system/squid.service 2019-02-19 06:29:20.000000000 +0100
+++ squid.service 2019-08-08 10:31:42.100000000 +0200
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/squid -sYC
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
KillMode=mixed
+LimitNOFILE=65535
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Sammy Atmadja
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