Hi,

I am running freeradius version 2.1.7. I am seeing some performance issue when I ran Veriwave AAA test with 15 clients connecting at the rate of 15 client/sec. The auth type is PEAP-MSCHAPv2 and using the local database (i.e. not radius). It is using the file as a db store which in our system is mapped to a ramdisk.

The test runs for 30 sec. The auth rate was 9 auth/sec.  The same test when ran against Microsoft AAA server gives 25 auth/sec.

With Freeradius, out of 450 attempted authentications, 209 was successful and 241 was failed. For single client the authentication time is around 110 ms.  Is this the expected number? From the mailing list, it seems 150 msec is what has been observed. The RSA key generation on the server is offloaded to the hardware. Without it the auth rate was only 3 auth/sec. Initially, I had threading option turned off and then later turned it on, but the numbers did not change much.

I have tried various suggestion put forward in the mailing list including radius file access during authentication by moving file section from authorize section to authenticate section etc., but not much improvement.

I also see something similar query raised, but did not find any satisfactory reply.

http://freeradius.1045715.n5.nabble.com/Performance-with-Freeradius-1-1-4-td2760808.html

Any help on this will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Anurag

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From: Verma Anurag-VNF673
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:37 AM
To: 'freeradius-devel@lists.freeradius.org'
Subject: building freeradius statically

Hi,

I am trying to build static version of freeradius by passing  --enable-static --enable-shared=no  to configure. However, I get an error related to static link of dynamic object libltdl.so.  In the make output I can see it is explicitly referring to this shared library. How can I tell it to link with libltdl.a (which is already existing) instead?

Thanks,

Anurag