SSL Certificate Deamon Children…How many?

[beauw]

Anyone have experience with Squid proxy in a large environment?

I have the SSL Certificate Daemon Children set at 25 but I still seem to get intermittent "Secure Connection Failed" responses.  I believe these are a result of unavailable certificate helpers at time of query.  A reload of the page usually fixes the issue within seconds.

Has anyone set the number of children higher with success?  Is it memory or CPU limited as you add more?

[Bismarck]

sslcrtd_children 64 startup=10 idle=1

works fine here, not really higher load on cpu or ram.

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/sslcrtd_children/

[beauw]

Excellent - thanks for the tip.  Running smoothly now….hope it helps fix the errors.

[harison]

I do not understand, you put how much value in the field ssl children? Because I have the same problem too.