You only need to increase the number of helpers if cache.log tells you
to..
However, it does not hurt much to have too many of them.
Regards
Henrik
ons 2002-11-13 klockan 10.17 skrev Dirk Scheffler:
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> Hi,
>
> i have a question about how many authentication processes should be
> started.
>
> We are using:
> - - Debian 3.0 / 2.2.20-Kernel
> - - Squid 2.4STABLE6 with pam_auth
> - - SquidGuard 1.2.0
>
> We have:
> - - a Pentium II 400MHz with 256MB RAM and SCSI-Devices
> - - 100 MBit LAN
> - - DSL-Connection to the internet
> - - 20 user
> - - some automated processes using a 'supervisor-account' on the proxy.
>
> Nearly everthing works fine, except that sometimes - rarely - the
> authentication fails for some user. Then we find only two lines in
> the auth.log about the
> failure, but i think, it is a problem of the pam_configuration to
> tell us more.
>
> Test/Workaround:
> We increased the number of authenticate_children up to 10 (former 5
> processes), we will see how long the authentication
> runs stable.
>
> Has anybody an idea/solutions/tip ??
>
> Thanks
> Dirk
>
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