Re: [squid-users] Too many queued ntlmauthenticator requests

As internet navigation is not affected (users don't even notice a
glitch) I'll probably wait for ubuntu to catch up with squid developers.
I'll let you know as soon as I upgrade if the behavior changes with
newer versions.

Thanks for your answer!

Best Regards
David JP

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> David Jiménez Peris wrote:
>>
>> On a linux ubuntu 8.04 server with squid 3.0.STABLE1 and samba 3.0.28a
>> configured to authenticate against a windows 2003 server active
>> directory with samba winbind ntlm-auth, the ntlm-auth processes keep
>> slowly getting locked in "RESERVED" state until squid emits the error
>> "Too many queued ntlmauthenticator requests" and restarts.
>>
>> Is this the expected behavior of squid?
>
> Maybe yes, maybe no.
> 3.0 earlier than STABLE5 have a mix of known problems with
> authentication. Try the latest (currently STABLE7) and see if the
> issue resolves.
>
> It _should_ build easily on Ubuntu. But I see their STABLE6 package
> has stalled, so while I look into that, any build issues at all (even
> the slightest) let me know.
>
> Amos
>
>>
>> Below it's an output of cachemanager3.cgi:
>>
>> NTLM Authenticator Statistics:
>> program: /usr/bin/ntlm_auth
>> number running: 10 of 10
>> requests sent: 11616
>> replies received: 11616
>> queue length: 0
>> avg service time: 0 msec
>>
>> # FD PID # Requests # Deferred Requests Flags
>> Time Offset Request
>> 1 9 14035 39 0 R 0.003 0 (none)
>> 2 10 14036 291 0 R 0.002 0 (none)
>> 3 11 14037 79 0 R 0.004 0 (none)
>> 4 12 14038 34 0 R 0.003 0 (none)
>> 5 13 14039 3306 0 R 0.004 0 (none)
>> 6 14 14040 6292 0 0.151 0 (none)
>> 7 15 14041 1251 0 0.050 0 (none)
>> 8 16 14042 23 0 R 0.023 0 (none)
>> 9 17 14043 3 0 R 0.023 0 (none)
>> 10 18 14044 298 0 0.137 0 (none)
>>
>> Flags key:
>>
>> B = BUSY
>> C = CLOSING
>> R = RESERVED or DEFERRED
>> S = SHUTDOWN
>> P = PLACEHOLDER
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Generated Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:33:18 GMT, by cachemgr3.cgi/3.0.STABLE1
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> David JP
>>
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 10 2008 - 16:24:23 MDT