Alright so I made the adjustments.... now my squid-auth.conf looks like: auth_param negotiate program /usr/lib/squid3/squid_kerb_auth -d auth_param negotiate children 10 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 8080 0 no-query login=*:nopassword acl AUTHENTICATED proxy_auth REQUIRED http_access allow AUTHENTICATED http_access deny all http_port 3030 cache_log /dev/null cache_store_log none pid_filename /var/run/squid3-auth.pid coredump_dir /var/spool/squid3-auth I am still experience the same issue with slowness. I was curious (could my squid-auth which I manually start be partially referencing my squid proxy which loads on start up, so when I run the 2nd instance it is breaking things?) I am just running out of ideas! But willing to try just about anything!!! -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Squid-DG-Sandwich-Squid3-auth-DansGuardian-Squid3-proxy-tp3311884p3323033.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.