Hi all; We have Squid 2.5.STABLE9 running with 30 ntlm_auth helpers Version 3.0.10-1.fc3. The problem is that on the squid´s cachemgr.cgi->NTLM User Authenticator Stats is possible to verify that the ntlm_auth processes are slowly having the flag R (Reserved or Deferred) set and never being used again (the number of requests stops and the time starts growing). This problem goes until there is no more ntlm_auth process available and squid restarts itself, restarting all ntlm_auth too. After the restart, everything is goes back to normal and the problem slowly repeats. We detected that the R flag appears more agressively if the domain controller is under more load (like running a backup script). Well, the questions are: 1- What does the flag reserved mean? 2- Any ideas why the R flag is spreading throught all the ntlm_auth processes, like processes 11 and 12 below (you can see the 11 and 12 are locked for a long time and process 13 is receiving more requests ? # FD PID # Requests Flags Time Offset Request 1 8 8656 475909 R 10.140 0 (none) 2 9 8657 632482 0.093 0 (none) 3 10 8658 363615 0.412 0 (none) 4 11 8659 64199 R 311498.132 0 (none) 5 12 8660 33142 R 311497.891 0 (none) 6 13 8661 121226 0.932 0 (none) 7 14 8662 58971 0.913 0 (none) (...) Just for the record, I originally have sent this message to the SAMBA list, and Andrew Bartlett (NTLM_AUTH coder) replyed me as below: "It might be that we need to have a better way to have ntlm_auth tell Squid that there is a problem now, but it might go away (previous helper designs had to be restarted for that to happen, but ntlm_auth can recover on it's own). Andrew Bartlett" Any help is greatly appreciated; Best regards; Rafael Sarres de Almeida Seção de Gerenciamento de Rede Superior Tribunal de Justiça Tel: (61) 319-9342
