Thanks Chris & Amos for your comments thus far. I've finally located a machine I can place this "Memory-only" squid on. I've got a 32GB, AMD 64-bit, blah blah. Anyway, since I'm a bit of a linux n00b, I was asking the OS question even after having read the wiki and postings about this topic. For me, the OS i use doesn't matter from a comfortability/familiarity standpoint, as it's all fairly new to me anyway. The only requirements are that it's 64-bit and will work with my 32GB of RAM. I was thinking of using fedora, centOS, or ubuntu 64-bit editions. What do you think will be the easiest OS to compile & run a 64-bit version of Squid on? That leads me to my next question... How DO I compile or get a binary of 64-bit squid 3.0 stable13? The few source and binaries i've seen don't differentiate between 32 & 64. I've dowmloaded the 3.0 Stable13 tar.gz, but I have no idea how to go about compiling it to run as 64-bit. Once I know this, I think i'll be all set. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks all!! David --- On Tue, 3/17/09, Chris Robertson <crobertson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Chris Robertson <crobertson@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Large-scale Reverse Proxy for serving images FAST > To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Received: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 1:21 PM > David Tosoff wrote: > > OK. Thanks Amos. > > > > Changing up the icp_port to a unique for each instance > worked. I should have thought about that as all instances > were on the same host (localhost/127.0.0.1) w/ the same > port... duhh. > > > > So, I have a few other questions then: We're going > to scale this up to a single-machine single-instance of 64 > linux and 64 squid 3.0 -- > > - What OS would you personally recommend running > Squid 3.x on for best performance? > > > > This space intentionally left blank. > > > - Is there no limit to the cache_mem we can use in > squid 3? I'd be working with about 64GB of memory in > this machine. > > > > Of course there's a limit. You just aren't likely > to hit it with the hardware you are using. Of course, as of > Q3 2007 here's the official answer: > http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200709/0559.html > > > - Can you elaborate on "heap replacement/garbage > policy"?? > > > > http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/cache_replacement_policy/ > and > http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/memory_replacement_policy/ > (The second link references the first, but would be the more > relevant directive if you are going to be using a > memory-only Squid). > > > - Any other options to watch for, for optimizing > memory cache usage? > > > > http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/memory_pools_limit/ > > > Thanks again! > > > > David > > > > Chris __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
