Re: [squid-users] Too many queued ntlmauthenticator requests

On tis, 2008-07-08 at 18:15 +0200, David Jiménez Peris wrote:
> On a linux ubuntu 8.04 server with squid 3.0.STABLE1 and samba 3.0.28a
> configured to authenticate against a windows 2003 server active
> directory with samba winbind ntlm-auth, the ntlm-auth processes keep
> slowly getting locked in "RESERVED" state until squid emits the error
> "Too many queued ntlmauthenticator requests" and restarts.

How many clients do you have?

Clients can quite easily tie up ntlm authentication helpers for extended
periods of time, for example while prompting the user for login..

Hmm.. we really should add a little more output to that helper stats,
showing who is holding the helper reserved... makes diagnosing this a
lot easier..

Regards
Henrik