On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Jon wrote:
> I'm new to the mailing list. I did some Google and mail archive search but
> I wasn't able to find much information on Squid running in a 64-bit
> environment.
Should work, but is not very much tested.
There quire likely will be problems on requests for very large objects >
2GB.
The benefits of 64bits is quite limited for Squid, and the drawbacks of
higher memory usage is very noticeable.
> I am going to stick with FreeBSD since I've become familiar with it, but has
> anyone successfully have Squid running on 64-bit in a production
> environment? How difficult or different is it to setup? Will the current
> version of Squid compile in 64-bit without any problems?
I did run Squid on 64-bit Alpha machines some several years back, and it
performed reasonably well then (with a few patches). But I have not tested
any recent versions of Squid in 64-bit environments.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Jan 04 2005 - 22:27:57 MST
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