Re: [squid-users] Performance Issues Using NTML

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> For NTLM you need lots of helpers due to the chatty nature of the NTLM
> protocol. And also the number of helpers does not have much impact on
> load.. All that happens if you have too many is that Squid uses a little
> bit more memory as there is more helper processes spawned each using a
> bit of memory..

And as we've found out ourselves increasing the number of helpers doesn't
help(!) when the bottleneck is Samba..

adrian

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