RE: [squid-users] Squid in 64-bit

Thanks for the reply; it raised another question in my mind. You mentioned
the benefits of 64-bits is limited, can you elaborate on that? What are the
benefits of going 64-bit? Will the caching be faster?

Thanks for reading,

Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:28 AM
To: Jon
Cc: Squid Users
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid in 64-bit

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 Thu Jan 06 2005 - 14:28:22 MST