[squid-users] ident lookups slowing down Network and locking CPU ?

Hello,

I'm having problems with squid doing ident lookups on a terminal server with
16 thin clients attached to that.

Basically everything works fine, but on "rush hour" everything stalls a
little. I was first using pidentd which would die under the high load. Now
I'm using oidentd, but that forks around 80 times, in order to be able to
handle the ident requests.

NTop shows that the network traffic maxing out (around 20 MBits max - on 100
MBit Network)

So it seems like the server is slowed down by the ident forks.

Now my questions:
- Are ident lookups not suitable for such a terminal server with so many
concurrent internet requests?
- Is a better solution if there was a squid child on the terminal server
itself and therefore the squid access and ident lookups are done through
sockets?

Thanks in advance!

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Greetings
 Alexander Schaber