Thank you Amos, do you think if I add the " auth_param ntlm children 20 " on the my squid.conf may solve my problem ? with value 20 my squid can supports up to 40 new client connections right ? might occur any slow or something?? there is other way for I accomplish this change ? thank you! 2011/6/28 Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:17:56 -0300, Usuário do Sistema wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, sometimes my squid process go to down and quickly to >> up again.maybe less of 3 seconds. > > Yes. An automatic restart after the crash. > >> >> in the logs ( /var/log/messages ) appear follow message: >> >> Jun 27 07:23:11 jvelnxfw02 squid[25247]: Too many queued >> ntlmauthenticator requests (26 on 5) >> Jun 27 07:23:11 jvelnxfw02 squid[25245]: Squid Parent: child process >> 25247 exited due to signal 6 >> Jun 27 07:23:14 jvelnxfw02 squid[25245]: Squid Parent: child process >> 26127 started >> >> I'm using the Active Directory to authentication. follow my squid >> parameters about ntlm >> >> auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth >> --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp >> >> auth_param basic children 20 >> >> auth_param basic realm Acesso a Internet Tigre SA >> >> auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours > > "basic" authentication protocol settings have no effect on "ntlm" > authentication protocol. > > What this means is that you are using the default value of "auth_param ntlm > children 5". > > The message Squid announced also said "(26 on 5)", meaning the configured > _5_ ntlm helpers were trying to handle 26 requests simultaneously. They can > handle at most one, and have one queued waiting. So a total capacity of 10 > new client connections to your Squid at any one time. Modern web browsers > will consume a large chunk of that low capacity (4-6 of the 10) loading a > single web page. > > > Amos >