[squid-users] All authenticator processes are busy - Questions

Hello everyone!

Got this message in my cache.log:

2003/05/07 15:29:11| helperStatefulDefer: None available.
2003/05/07 15:29:11| WARNING: All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy.
2003/05/07 15:29:11| WARNING: 20 pending requests queued
2003/05/07 15:29:11| Consider increasing the number of ntlmauthenticator
processes in your config file.

Naturally, I snipped some of it. I was just busy surfing around when
all of a sudden IE kept asking me to authenticate. (On this machine,
I'm not connected to the domain, so I have to manually enter everything
whenever I open an IE window.)

Now, I've already got it set to 20 helpers for both NTLM and basic, so
40 total between the two. I don't want to increase it more unless it's
recommended.

Any ideas as to why it might suddenly do this? There's only about 20
people currently using the proxy, and even then they don't use it much
as they actually work, unlike me.

Just looking for some thoughts. As I said, I don't want to increase the
number of authenticators unless I have to.

Thanks,
Scott
Received on Wed May 07 2003 - 13:39:31 MDT