On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Netguy wrote: > i am planning to buy a machine with large storage (around 1 or 2 > tera-byte) and running it as squid proxy.
Do you really need that large storage in a single Squid proxy? There is very little return when growing the cache beyond 1 weeks worth of content. > i have now a machine with 125GB cache with cache_mem set to 256 and the > squid process grows up to 1.3GB. the problem is in my openion in the > memory because the squid process will grow above 2GB and this will crash > it. The upper limit depends on your OS and architecture: Some Intel OS:es allow for processes up to around 3GB in size. If you run on a 64-bit architecture then process size is virtually unlimited. But on the other hand Squid is very limited tested in 64-bit environments, and it is also a fact that the memory requirements increases significantly when going to 64 bits as many of the cache index fields is word size dependent, causing a memory requirements increase of at least 50% more on 64-bit architectures compared to 32-bit architectures. Regards Henrik
