Christopher Carver wrote:
Correct, but you don't want to run it in a heavy production environment for very long. While I don't have proof, it would HAVE to be less efficient because it isn't using threads and its taking the time to print everything.
True, but given that FreeRADIUS running on a 486 can handle a lot of requests, you probably wouldn't notice it unless you are processing a LOT of requests. Of course, it depends on where you store your accounting and user info. Most of my slowdowns are mysql related. I have run one of our production servers in -X mode for several hours (I found that my system would not actually dump a core unless running in -X). The load difference was negligible with a couple hundred requests per minute.
Its necessary for me to redirect the output because our radius server can get up to 10 requests per second, far too much to simply look at as it comes in.
Yep, hence:
You should be doing this on a test machine anyway. Debugging on a production system is tough.
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