[squid-users] NTLM Performance question

hi.

i've successfully got squid authenticating against our ad domain, and the restrictions on the squid server itself are by nt group membership.

i'm noticing that there is a heck of a lot of activity by the authenticating perl program when i run 'top'.

i've included the relevant lines from my squid.conf- is there something i ought to change here to enable better performance? presently it runs slower than our isa server and is on similar spec hardware. i wondered if there was some way of increasing the time it remembers a users details without re-querying the server?

thanks

john


#nt auth

auth_param ntlm program /usr/samba/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp
auth_param ntlm children 15
auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 60 minutes

auth_param basic program /usr/samba/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm SuperSquid
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours

external_acl_type nt_group ttl=0 concurrency=20 %LOGIN /usr/squid/libexec/wbinfo_group.pl

_______________________________________________
Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com
The most personalized portal on the Web!
Received on Wed Jun 29 2005 - 09:09:15 MDT