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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Nicolas Baradakis wrote:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>> what bothers me is that the freeradius is handling such a small</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> amount of authorizations, and keeping the processor usage below</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> 10%. (?!) why doesn't it take 90% and do in the mean time more work?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Perhaps the client doesn't send enough requests to make the server</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> busy. How do you make your tests?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>thank you for your answer. that might just be it! :-) i have a test </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>client also programmed by a colleague, that starts a number of threads (for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>each authorization one) that in the beginning wait for a semaphore. after</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>all threads are ready, the semapfore is switched to green and all</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>authorization requests are sent in a burst. maybe it needs some tuning.. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>anyway, do you know any radius eap-sim test clients that work for sure? </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>regards,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>r.</FONT>
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