[squid-users] Re: shared-memory cache in Squid3.2 and object size?

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> 32KB == 1 page allocation for the
> particular SMB shared memory systems used.

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	Particular SMB shared memory systems?
	Don't you just use something like the posix shm calls?
I see squid's cache in /dev/shm:
Ishtar:/dev/shm> lh
-rw-rw-rw- 1  70K Jul 27 17:14 jack-shm-registry
-r-------- 1  65M Jul 26 17:51 pulse-shm-1005231492
-rwxrwxr-x 1   32 Jul 27 17:14 sem.jack_sem.5013_default_system*
-rw------- 1  29M Aug  2 18:53 squid-cache_mem.shm
-rw------- 1 8.1G Aug  2 18:53 squid-squid-page-pool.shm
I doubt the kernel expects only 32k allocations... especially
since the only other default on x86 is 8k (going the 32bit compat route).
What's using 32KB?