[squid-users] Squid crashing with too few NTLM authenticators

Squid Version: 2.5Stable10
OS: Solaris 8
Samba Version: Version 3.0.14a

Would it be normal for Squid to crash and restart if there are too few
NTLM authenticators? I observed this error while stress testing our Squid
setup from one of our computer labs. Obviously I need to increase the
number but should Squid crash?

2005/08/11 17:29:53| WARNING: All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy.
2005/08/11 17:29:53| WARNING: up to 10 pending requests queued
2005/08/11 17:29:58| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
2005/08/11 17:29:58| WARNING: Closing open FD 30
2005/08/11 17:29:58| Finished. Wrote 6414 entries.
2005/08/11 17:29:58| Took 0.0 seconds (165989.5 entries/sec).
FATAL: Too many queued ntlmauthenticator requests (51 on 10)
Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE10): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 117.660 seconds = 83.790 user + 33.870 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 6919
Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
         total space in arena: 19529 KB
         Ordinary blocks: 19212 KB 100 blks
         Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
         Holding blocks: 728 KB 2 blks
         Free Small blocks: 0 KB
         Free Ordinary blocks: 316 KB
         Total in use: 19940 KB 102%
         Total free: 316 KB 2%
2005/08/11 17:30:01| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE10 for
sparc-sun-solaris2.8...

-Mike
Received on Sat Aug 13 2005 - 14:14:30 MDT