over 30 radiusd processes

[Craig Campbell]

Nothing in the log except the normal startup.

This server is only receiving accounting records currently.

While the ps command doesn't show the time of these extra processes (over 24 
hours old), in a previous event, I determined they seemed to coincide with a 
significant increase in radius traffic (from ~100/min to over 1000/min)  I 
believe the NAS forces all users to log off (and they automatically log back 
in) in the middle of the night, and I suspect this is related.

Also, the system provided is a Virtual Machine, which normally seems to have 
plenty of resources available.  The mysql database is local to the same 
system, and is only used to keep accounting records of currently logged in 
users (radutmp replacement - a cron job flushed out completed records to 
prevent database growth).

Alan suggested this might be related to shell scripts being run - as happens 
when acct STOP records are received.

I'm trying to come up with a strategy to narrow down what might be 
happening.

Under what circumstances does radiusd fork?  Also, I THOUGH I'd heard 
somewhere that threads and fork did NOT interact well.

I am also considering upgrading to 2.1.7 (but I just finished configuring 
2.1.6 :(  2.1.7 wasn't released when I started this..)

Thoughts?

Thanks (everyone),
-craig


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marinko Tarlac" <mangia81 at gmail.com>
To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: over 30 radiusd processes


>I had a same problem when one of our databases was terrible slow...
>
> Is there anything in radius.log ?
>
> Alan DeKok wrote:
>> Craig Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> Freeradius 2.1.6
>>>
>>> Running on Redhat AS5 Update 3
>>> with mysql-devel rpms added to enable mysql support.
>>>
>>> Compiled with no options specified. (./configure ; make clean ; make ;
>>> make install)
>>>
>>
>>   I don't know.. all I know is it cleans up processes when I run them,
>> and no one else seems to be running into this.
>>
>>   Alan DeKok.
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