[squid-users] All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy.

Hello,
I'm seeing the dreaded "All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy" error 2-3
times a week which I can fix by restarting squid but the proxy only stays up for
a few days at a time.

This is our very simple squid.conf file
acl snmppublic snmp_community test
#Recommended minimum configuration:
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
acl SSL_ports port 443
acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
acl CONNECT method CONNECT
http_port 192.168.3.100:80
http_port 192.168.3.100:3128
#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid
# redirector_bypass off
url_rewrite_program /usr/local/squidGuard/bin/squidGuard -c
/usr/local/squidGuard/squidGuard.conf
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
cache deny QUERY
#Suggested default:
refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache
broken_vary_encoding allow apache
visible_hostname proxy.test.com
snmp_port 3401
auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp
auth_param ntlm children 15

auth_param basic program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic
auth_param basic children 15
auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 3 hours

acl NTLMUsers proxy_auth REQUIRED
http_access allow all NTLMUsers

Any suggestions to tune this to reduce the NTLM authentication error?
Received on Fri Mar 25 2011 - 20:50:09 MDT