{"id":791,"date":"2008-07-26T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atumvirtwordpress.azurewebsites.net\/?p=791"},"modified":"2008-07-26T02:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T02:44:00","slug":"frustrations-with-x64-incompatability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/2008\/07\/frustrations-with-x64-incompatability\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrations with x64 (in)Compatability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we were configuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squid-cache.org\/\">Squid <\/a>on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/rhel\/\">RHEL 5<\/a>. box.  Building from source, we knew we&#8217;d get a nice 64-bit Squid caching server, ready to quickly process the cache and what have you.  We run a filtering plugin from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securecomputing.com\/\">Secure Computing<\/a>, which had to be compiled in with it.  Unfortunately, Squid won&#8217;t build with the module because it doesn&#8217;t support 64-bit.  This is extremely frustrating, as there are a number of limitations that we will face. <\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, in order to capitalize on high memory quantities available at low cost, 64-bit is nearly a must.  While PAE helps, there are virtual address memory space limitations that can&#8217;t be overcome.  Secondly, the additional speed for CPU calculations would be useful.  Our current Squid proxy runs at approximately 95% utilization.  While having the additional 6 cores will help, obviously, nothing takes the load off like moving to native 64-bit apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we were configuring Squid on a RHEL 5. box. Building from source, we knew we&#8217;d get a nice 64-bit Squid caching server, ready to quickly process the cache and what have you. We run a filtering plugin from Secure Computing, which had to be compiled in with it. Unfortunately, Squid won&#8217;t build with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,54,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}