RE: [squid-users] All authenticator processes are busy - Questions

At the moment, it doesn't seem to show much. According to cache
manager, they're all available. I'll keep an eye on it, as I did
increase the number of authenticators anyways, as well as restart Squid.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:robertc@squid-cache.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 3:59 PM
To: Scott Wrosch
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] All authenticator processes are busy -
Questions

Sounds like a problem with the authenticator you are using.

Check cache manager - what do you see under the NTLM helper stats.

Rob

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 05:35, Scott Wrosch wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> Got this message in my cache.log:
>
> 2003/05/07 15:29:11| helperStatefulDefer: None available.
> 2003/05/07 15:29:11| WARNING: All ntlmauthenticator processes are
busy.
> 2003/05/07 15:29:11| WARNING: 20 pending requests queued
> 2003/05/07 15:29:11| Consider increasing the number of
ntlmauthenticator
> processes in your config file.
>
> Naturally, I snipped some of it. I was just busy surfing around when
> all of a sudden IE kept asking me to authenticate. (On this machine,
> I'm not connected to the domain, so I have to manually enter
everything
> whenever I open an IE window.)
>
> Now, I've already got it set to 20 helpers for both NTLM and basic, so
> 40 total between the two. I don't want to increase it more unless
it's
> recommended.
>
> Any ideas as to why it might suddenly do this? There's only about 20
> people currently using the proxy, and even then they don't use it much
> as they actually work, unlike me.
>
> Just looking for some thoughts. As I said, I don't want to increase
the
> number of authenticators unless I have to.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott

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