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tis 2006-11-14 klockan 01:42 -0800 skrev zulkarnain:

> Briefly speaking, even my machine equipped with 8 GB
> of RAM, as long as I'm using 32 bits OS, squid process
> only able to use 3 GB or RAM and other system process
> will get 5 GB?

correct.

A 32-bit application can not go above 3GB in best case, often much less
due to dynamic linking, threads etc eating significant parts of the
address space. 2.5 GB or even less is more realistic to expect.

Well, there is also some experimental 32-bit OS:es getting close to the
theoretical 4GB limit per process (2^32 == 4GB), but only at significant
performance penalty and added internal complexity.

A 64-bit application (which also requires 64-bit CPU and 64-bit OS to
run) on the other hand is practically unlimited in size, only limited by
how much memory you can stuff into the box.

Regards
Henrik

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