[squid-users] All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy.

Hello.
Squid crashes with "All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy".
Can anybody help me?

Squid Version: 2.5.Stable10
OS: Linux 2.4.30
Samba Version: 3.0.14a

2005/08/16 16:16:00| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
2005/08/16 16:16:00| WARNING: Closing open FD 102
2005/08/16 16:16:00| 65536 entries written so far.
2005/08/16 16:16:00| 131072 entries written so far.
2005/08/16 16:16:00| Finished. Wrote 142188 entries.
2005/08/16 16:16:00| Took 0.1 seconds (2152276.6 entries/sec).
FATAL: Too many queued ntlmauthenticator requests (201 on 40)
Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE10): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 143.360 seconds = 33.310 user + 110.050 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 712
Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
        total space in arena: 35148 KB
        Ordinary blocks: 34999 KB 42 blks
        Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
        Holding blocks: 2044 KB 1 blks
        Free Small blocks: 0 KB
        Free Ordinary blocks: 149 KB
        Total in use: 37043 KB 105%
        Total free: 149 KB 0%
2005/08/16 16:16:10| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE10 for i486-slackware-linux-gnu...
Received on Tue Aug 23 2005 - 06:25:11 MDT