Re: [SQU] Queued Authenticator Processes

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Rainer Ginsberg wrote:

> Hello together,
>
> tonight, our Squid 2.2 stopped working. In syslog, we found the
> following messages (approximately every ten minutes):
>
> Dec 5 02:10:29 proxy.bosch.com squid[9566]: Too many queued authenticator
> requests
> Dec 5 02:21:10 proxy.bosch.com squid[11677]: Too many queued authenticator
> requests
> Dec 5 02:31:39 proxy.bosch.com squid[13388]: Too many queued authenticator
> requests
>
> Does this suggest that the number of authenticator processes is too
> small? Then I wonder why this happened at night when there aren't that
> many requests.

Or that your authenticator process is too slow.

maybe you could benefit from another CPU?

Oh, I forgot, Squid doesn't scale well on multiprocessor hardware.

Got any resource intensive cron jobs that run at 2AM? If you're
running FreeBSD, don't forget to remove the cache directory from
the locate.updatedb config.

Duane W.

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