Re: [squid-users] Number of authenticate_children

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,
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> 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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