that's not bad to hear. I have seen the new version. at the moment the only way to "test" is to use this new version in production and see what happens. very annoying. with switch back to 3.3.x or 3.2.x everything works perfect! no it is not ntlm/Kerberos. see my posting from January: > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Rietzler, Markus (RZF, SG 324 / <RIETZLER_SOFTWARE>) > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014 10:48 > An: 'Eliezer Croitoru' > Betreff: AW: AW: AW: Squid 3.4 sends Windows username > without backslash to external wbinfo_group helper > > just a quick answer: > > yesterday we switched to ntlm fakeauth to eliminate any problems with > samba/winbind protocol talking to DC (every now and then winbind losts its > trust with DC, so with fakeauth we can be sure there is now influence with > tcp connections and talking to DC). > > but also with fakeauth we can see the rising of cpu usage. we then enabled > 2 workers and this seems to reduce the problem somewhat. the rise is not > that fast... ... but also happens in the end! > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Carlos Defoe [mailto:carlosdefoe@xxxxxxxxx] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Februar 2014 20:38 > An: squid-users > Betreff: Re: AW: squid 3.4. uses 100% cpu with ntlm_auth > > For me, the version 3.4.3 have the same behavior. It uses 100% CPU (in > one core, the others are normal). For the users, it's just a slowed > down navigation. As soon as I change back to the 3.3.8, everything > works fine. > > Actually I'm not sure the problem is caused by ntlm or kerberos or > external_acl_type or anything related to authentication. But I can't > disable it to be sure. > > This time I will leave one server runnnig with 3.4.3 and try to debug. > I have already tried to increase the debug level on every auth helper, > but I couldn't see nothing wrong. I'll try debug_options ALL,9 > tomorrow. > > With strace, should I look for something? System calls squid does all > the time... > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Alan <lameventanas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> On 7/01/2014 10:21 p.m., Rietzler, Markus (RZF, SG 324 / > >> <RIETZLER_SOFTWARE>) wrote: > >>> thanxs, > >>> > >>> our assumption is, that it is related to helper management. with 3.4. > there is a "new helper protocol", right? > >> > >> Right. That is the big user-visible bit in 3.4. > >> > >> But there are other background changes involving TCP connection > >> management, authentication management, ACL behaviours and some things > in > >> 3.3 series also potentially affecting NTLM. > >> > >> The feature changes just give us a direction to look in. We still have > >> to diagnose each new bug in detail to be sure. There are others already > >> using NTLM in older 3.3/3.4 versions without seing this problem for > example. > >> > >>> our environment worked with 3.2 without problems. now with the jump to > 3.4. it will not work anymore. so number of requests are somehow important > but as it worked in the past... > >>> > >>> if we go without ntlm_auth we can't see any high cpu load. so the > first thought ACL and eg. regex problems can be > >>> discarded. maybe there are some cross influences. but we think it lies > somewhere in helpers/auth. > >> > >> Did you get any better cache.log trace with the debug_options 29,9 > 84,9? > >> > >> Amos > >> > > > > I have the same problem here, I noticed it when I went from 3.3.8 to > 3.4.2. > > I assumed the problem was introduced with 3.4.x, so I went back to > > 3.3.11 and it is working fine. > > I'm using aufs, negotiate_kerberos_auth and a custom external acl > helper. > > > > Unfortunately these are production servers, so I can't strace or > > increase logging as suggested.
