Re: [squid-users] squid performance on 32bit Vs 64 bit

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:55:02 +0800

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006, zulkarnain wrote:

> Briefly speaking, even my machine equipped with 8 GB
> of RAM, as long as I'm using 32 bits OS, squid process
> only able to use 3 GB or RAM and other system process
> will get 5 GB?

If your kernel has been compiled to support 3gb user / 1gb kernel (and that works out for
you) than thats what PAE will give you. There's possibly restrictions involving buffering
and such; I've not ever owned a PAE machine with >4gb of RAM so i don't know what
the behaviour is. :P

Adrian
Received on Tue Nov 14 2006 - 02:50:08 MST

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