Hi,
How long do database writes take?
insert in acccouting db takes ~ 10ms delete from accouting db takes ~ 25ms
For the authtentication database I have about 10 authentication queries/s but regularly reaches 30/s when problems on BAS or DSLAM outcome (max value since last year is ~80/s).
from those details it looks like you could handle 100 inserts per seond with a single process and 40 deletes per second. worse case you came up with was 80/s - which is fine for inserts but tricky for deletes - so you'd need just 2 sockets on a rainy day. - but then you've got things like table locking if using MySQL with eg myISAM engine so you'd have to probably double that to deal with the slower queries - make it 4 sockets. I've only made FreeRADIUS cry with mySQL when hitting it with really big slow queries at which point it choked all its handles and started to get really angry but a couple of optimisations later with some indexes and a change of DB engine (InnoDB) and things were fine - to ensure future happiness a migration to postgres was undertaken (pretty painless on the FR side of things...updating other code was more ...interesting... lets say) and we then moved to buffered_sql for the heavy stuff - that thread chugs along in the background inserting/updating table values when it needs to. FreeRADIUS and accouting DB took up too much time a while back.. a distraction that I could have done without but since the move to a better DB (I know..i'm stirring now..) and moving to 'out of band' DB updates its 'just done its job(tm)' PS there is an upcoming webcast about FreeRADIUS and mysql clusters - if you are into MySQL and performance/reliability I'd wholely recommend getting onto that. alan