Hello, I am using helpers to customize Squid's functionality. I noticed that helpers die after some time (all at the same time). Is that normal? Is there any limit how much requests one helper could serve and after must be killed? 2013/01/01 16:19:22| WARNING: basicauthenticator #1 (FD 12) exited 2013/01/01 16:19:22| WARNING: basicauthenticator #3 (FD 32) exited 2013/01/01 16:19:23| WARNING: basicauthenticator #2 (FD 16) exited 2013/01/01 16:19:23| Too few basicauthenticator processes are running 2013/01/01 16:19:23| Starting new helpers This kind of logs seems suspicious to me. The helper program is a simple PHP script which has set_time_limit(0) at the beginning and while loop to process requests: while ($line = fgets(STDIN)) { // connect to DB if connection does not exist or were closed list($userName, $password) = explode(' ', trim($line), 2); // check user & pass and reply OK, ERR or BH } Can anyone suggest what debug_options's section I should use to log helper killing reason? Any suggestion or tip will be appreciated. Thanks