Re: [squid-users] Enc: failure notice

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 Rafael.Almeida@stj.gov.br wrote:

>> Probably you are running short on filedescriptors. There is a threshold
> of
>> 50% used filedescriptors above which Squid will refuse to support
>> persistent connections. As you already know NTLM requires persistent
>> connections due to design error in the NTLM over HTTP protocol.
>
>> This threshold was introduced in 2.5.STABLE5:
>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE4-pconn-load
>
> Hi Henrik;
> Thanks for the reply, I think you discovered my problem. Just one thing
> did not make sense, my squid runs almost all of the time above 50% of used
> file descriptors with no problem. So I went to the bug #571 history
> (http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=571) and discovered that
> the actual threshold is 25% of available file descriptors or
> ReservedFDs*2:

Right. My memory serves me wrong. 25% is obviously more balanced than 50%
here.

but again, it could do better for the NTLM authentication.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Jun 20 2005 - 10:09:43 MDT