Re: 1.1.4 stops responding to requests

[Michael Griego <mgriego@utdallas.edu>]

The fix for this is in the CVS HEAD and probably should be backported  
to the latest release branch.  There was a race condition in the code  
where the server could clean up an accounting request before a thread  
actually got to it to process it.

--Mike

On Feb 13, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Phil Allred wrote:

> Interesting.  I don't think it is needed here.  I'll check with our
> wireless vendor, then give it a shot.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Phil
>
> Guilherme Franco wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Same with me, but acct is necessary.
> >
> > The solution was radsqlrelay.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Guilherme
> >
> > On 2/13/07, *Stefan Winter* <stefan.winter@restena.lu
> > <mailto:stefan.winter@restena.lu>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> > > 1.1.4 will run for a few hours and then either stop responding to
> > > requests or die.   There is no seg fault warning in any log
> >     file.  If I
> > > restart radius, it then begins answering again.  Since it is a
> > > production environment in which 300-500 users are connected at
> >     any given
> > > time, we were unable to simply turn on debugging and look for
> >     problems.
> > > Once we realized the problem we had to quickly revert to 1.0.5
> >     for now
> > > and make our relatively few Vista users for a little longer.
> >
> >     Interesting... I've been seeing exactly this happening on our own
> >     system. In
> >     our case, I could track it down to the fact that it stopped  
> > responding
> >     shortly after accounting packets came in. Turning off accounting
> >     (already on
> >     NAS level) deterministically solved the problem for me, so I
> >     suspect the
> >     problem to be somewhere near there.
> >     I never followed this trace, because accounting is optional at  
> > our
> >     site (free
> >     wireless) and it was our prod environment, I didn't want to mess
> >     around
> >     without a good reason. So accounting is just off at the moment.
> >
> > > I am going to try running it in debug mode over a weekend in a
> > > particular subset of the school's wireless network where not
> >     many users
> > > would be affected by a crash and see if I can collect any more
> > > information.  I will do it on a system that never had any earlier
> > > version of freeradius installed on it, just to be safe.  In the
> > > meantime, any advice would be appreciated.
> >
> >     Is it an option to not do accounting? Or maybe queue the acct in
> >     files rather
> >     than a proper backend (for me, the issue happened in combination
> >     with mysql).
> >     I never tried if the hangs occur also when logging to a file.
> >
> >     Greetings,
> >
> >     Stefan Winter
> >
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