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3.9 Exercises

  • After compiling Squid, remove one or more of the .o files and run make again.

  • Use the ulimit or limits command to change the file descriptor limit to some small value before compiling Squid. Does ./configure obey or ignore your new limit?

  • Compile Squid with a high file-descriptor limit, then try to run it on a system with a lower limit. Does Squid use the lower or higher limit?

  • What happens if you mistype one of the enable options? What if you specify an invalid storage scheme with the enable-store-io option?

  • After compiling Squid, remove src/Makefile and try to compile it again. What's the easiest way to restore the file?



    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Getting Squid
    		Chapter 3. Compiling and Installing
    		3.1 Before You Start
    		3.2 Unpacking the Source
    		3.3 Pretuning Your Kernel
    		3.4 The configure Script
    		3.5 make
    		3.6 make Install
    		3.7 Applying a Patch
    		3.8 Running configure Later
    		3.9 Exercises
    		Chapter 4. Configuration Guide for the Eager
    		Chapter 5. Running Squid
    		Chapter 6. All About Access Controls
    		Chapter 7. Disk Cache Basics
    		Chapter 8. Advanced Disk Cache Topics
    		Chapter 9. Interception Caching
    		Chapter 10. Talking to Other Squids
    		Chapter 11. Redirectors
    		Chapter 12. Authentication Helpers
    		Chapter 13. Log Files
    		Chapter 14. Monitoring Squid
    		Chapter 15. Server Accelerator Mode
    		Chapter 16. Debugging and Troubleshooting
    		Appendix A. Config File Reference
    		Appendix B. The Memory Cache
    		Appendix C. Delay Pools
    		Appendix D. Filesystem Performance Benchmarks
    		Appendix E. Squid on Windows
    		Appendix F. Configuring Squid Clients