On Tue, Nov 13, 2007, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > For NTLM you need lots of helpers due to the chatty nature of the NTLM > protocol. And also the number of helpers does not have much impact on > load.. All that happens if you have too many is that Squid uses a little > bit more memory as there is more helper processes spawned each using a > bit of memory.. And as we've found out ourselves increasing the number of helpers doesn't help(!) when the bottleneck is Samba.. adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support -