Hi Amos, That is another problem I´ve detected, when doing a reload it don't close all the ntlm_auth processes, I thougt it was because there is a little difference at the time between the squid server and the LDAP server (we are implementing an ntp server to resolve this issue), and the processes keep hang, so I will wait your news for 3.1 release. If you need any help, data, or whatever say to me. I´'ve not set the "half_closed_clients" parameter, so it keeps with the default value (off). Thanks a lot, Gontzal