FreeRADIUS can't make progress under certain load

[rihad]

On 09/11/2011 01:33 PM, rihad wrote:
> On 09/10/2011 11:45 PM, Alan DeKok wrote:
>> rihad wrote:
>>> BTW, I'm not sure why, but
>>> under comparable workloads openradius does not exhibit this problem.
>>    Look at the source code to OpenRADIUS.  It doesn't do duplicate
>> detection that's suggested by RFC 5080 (which I'm the author of).  This
>> is understandable, because the most recent release of OpenRADIUS is 4
>> years ago, before RFC 5080 was published.
>>
>>    So OpenRADIUS is worse than FreeRADIUS.  It will process both the old
>> and the new request, which *increases* the load on your system.  And it
>> *won't* tell you that there's a problem.
>>
>>    You are making a very, very, common mistake.  You see an error
>> message, and you're trying to get rid of the error message.  You are
>> *not* trying to understand the problem.  You are *not* trying to solve
>> the real problem.
>>
>>    Go find out why something is blocking FreeRADIUS.  And this is 
>> bad, too:
> I think I solved the issue by configuring max_requests so that it 
> brakes at the right time.
> It wouldn't be bad to mention in radiusd.conf that max_requests 
> divided by cleanup_delay should be set by the administrator to a value 
> that is the expected maximum req/s supported by the system.
>
Oops, what I meant was, max_requests should be set to req/s supported by 
the system multiplied by cleanup_delay.

> Just my 2 cents.