Re: [squid-users] Squid Memory Limitations?

From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:06:14 +0100

Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org> writes:
> tor 2002-11-21 klockan 16.23 skrev Andrew Sawyers:
>
>> These are running on 32bit Intel processors and we are running linux.
>> So, just to get it from the 'horses mouth' per se, we should not exceed 2GB
>> process sizes with squid at this point in time?
>
> Right.
>
> For larger processes you might want to consider using a 64 bit pointer
> architecture such as Alpha or UltraSparc (with a 64 bit enabled
> compiler).

This is interesting. It implies that you can't really use more than
180-200 GB cache with squid on 32bit processors, doesn't it?

Bjørn
Received on Fri Nov 22 2002 - 11:06:30 MST

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