Re: [squid-users] Intermittent Hangups with Squid and NTLM Auth

On tis, 2007-07-31 at 15:50 -0400, Brian Kirk wrote:

> We from time to time have problems with the ntlm_auth where every
> process in the NTLM User Authenticator Stats on the cachemgr.cgi seems
> to be hung. We have tried from 30 processes up to 100 processes, but
> it doesn't help. Seems to happen during high traffic times.

This sounds like a Samba or Windows domain controller problem to me..

> We see these lines repeated over again when it first started today in
> the /var/log/samba/winbindd.log:
> [2007/07/31 09:58:58, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:process_loop(832)
> winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found
> [2007/07/31 09:58:58, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:process_loop(813)
> winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found

Confirming the above..

Do your server have access to all your domain controllers?

REgards
Henrik