On 2/19/08, Adrian Chadd <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > G'day, > THanks for this stuff. > Could you possibly try hitting it hard enough to cause Squid to back up > on pending authentications? It'd be good to replicate a "fail" situation; > we can then take that to the samba guys and ask "wtf?" Adrian, Yep I've seen that and it's easy to reproduce by lowering the number of authenticators. So when I start squid configured with: auth_param ntlm children 50 # /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -d100 -X -N -D -f /RamDisk/squid.conf 2008/02/19 14:29:09| WARNING: All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy. 2008/02/19 14:29:09| WARNING: up to 50 pending requests queued 2008/02/19 14:29:11| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2008/02/19 14:29:11| WARNING: Closing open FD 64 2008/02/19 14:29:11| commSetEvents: epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL): failed on fd=64: (1) Operation not permitted 2008/02/19 14:29:11| Finished. Wrote 93 entries. 2008/02/19 14:29:11| Took 0.0 seconds (140060.2 entries/sec). FATAL: Too many queued ntlmauthenticator requests (251 on 50) Aborted # echo $? 134 It exits immediatly with return code 134 -RichardW.