varnishd and PAE

[Nathan Uno]

Ok - that makes sense.  Thanks for you help!

Nato

On 11/4/08, Per Buer <perbu at linpro.no> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nathan Uno skrev:
>
>> I'm running varnishd on PAE-enabled kernel (on PAE-capable hardware).
>> At startup varnishd recognizes that this is a 32-bit operating system
>> and restricts the cache size to 2GB.  I *think* PAE should prevent me
>> from running out of address space - is this a correct understanding?
>
> No. PAE makes it possible for you operating system to address more then
> 4Gb of memory. Unless there is is specific support in the application
> (there isn't) it will still be limited to a 32bit address space.
>
>> If so, is there a way for me to ask varnishd to ignore this limitation?
>
> No, sorry. 3 or 4 years ago it might have made sense to add the
> possibility to work around this limit (maybe by having several cache
> children each with 2GB) - but it is hardly relevant any more. There
> isn't much 32 bit hardware left these days.
>
>
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