RadPerf Overload Testing packets/s is much lower than in Performance Testing

5 Feb 2016

      I tried the performance testing in RadPerf for -p 8 to see the maximum 
accepted load that a RADIUS server can handle. The result was 203 
packets/s. My problem now is in the overload testing, I was not able to 
reach the packets/s number printed out for -p. I tried -n 200 and 500 
but got a very low packets/s in my result, it was 34 packets/s. What 
might be wrong?

I'm using python module and MySQL database.

Here's my result for -p 8:

Total sent        :  10000
Total retransmits :  0
Total succeeded   :  10000
Total failed      :  0
Total no reply    :  0
Total time (s)    :  49.300
Packets/s         :  203
Response times:
   < 10 usec  : 0
   < 100 usec : 0
   < msec     : 0
   < 10 msec  : 0
   < 0.1s     : 9998
   < s        : 2
   < 10s      : 0
   < 100s     : 0

and this is my result for -n 200

Total sent        :  10000
Total retransmits :  0
Total succeeded   :  10000
Total failed      :  0
Total no reply    :  0
Total time (s)    :  292.100
Packets/s         :  34
Response times:
   < 10 usec  : 0
   < 100 usec : 0
   < msec     : 0
   < 10 msec  : 0
   < 0.1s     : 9997
   < s        : 3
   < 10s      : 0
   < 100s     : 0

and for -n 500

Total sent        :  10000
Total retransmits :  0
Total succeeded   :  10000
Total failed      :  0
Total no reply    :  0
Total time (s)    :  296.937
Packets/s         :  34
Response times:
   < 10 usec  : 0
   < 100 usec : 0
   < msec     : 0
   < 10 msec  : 0
   < 0.1s     : 9993
   < s        : 7
   < 10s      : 0
   < 100s     : 0

Jim Well Balatero