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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
