Re: [squid-users] Lots of objects and ram, 32bit or 64bits?

tor 2007-01-18 klockan 12:56 -0800 skrev Mike Leong:

> Should I upgrade to 64bit squid? From the archive, squid 64bit uses
> more RAM for the same amount of objects, so in a sense, upgrading the
> RAM won't give more storage capacity.

I would say go for 64-bit, with no doubt about it. Yes, it's true that
the store index will be somewhat larger on 64-bit than 32-bit, but at
the same time it unlocks your hardware and memory isn't very expensive.

> Will squid 32bit hit a memory limit, and thus limit the number of
> objects it can track? If so, what is the memory limit?

You are most likely very very close to the limit already. The
theoretical limit of 32-bit applications is 2^32 bytes or 4GB, but it's
just theoretical. The practical limit is significantly less.. Exacly
where is very OS and application dependent.

Regards
Henrik