I'm working with rlm_python in FreeRadius 2.2.6 and with 20 simultaneous eapol_test threads running I was only getting 5-6 requests/second. This got me wondering how FreeRadius and rlm_python handle threading. So to make sure it wasn't related to my database calls or anything else I wrote a simple radiusd_module.py with no external dependencies/calls that instantly returned OK and it was handling 275 requests/second. Now I'm doubting my requests are being processed in parallel so I modified my radiusd_module.py to have a 1 second sleep between starting to process a request and returning OK. The module looks something like this: import radiusd import time def instantiate(p): # do something return 0 def array_to_dict(array): my_dict = {} for t in array: # strip any quotes off of the beginning & end my_dict[t[0]] = t[1].lstrip('"').rstrip('"') return my_dict def post_auth(p): my_dict = array_to_dict(p) print "***** Start %s" % my_dict['NAS-Port-Id'] time.sleep(1) print "***** End %s" % my_dict['NAS-Port-Id'] return radiusd.RLM_MODULE_OK Then I set two copies of eapol_test in an infinite loop sending NAS-Port-Id's of 1 and 2 so I could see what radius.log looked like. The hypothesis being if it's properly threaded I should get this: ***** Start 1 ***** Start 2 ==== Pause 1 second ***** End 1 ***** End 2 ... repeat I ran the the two eapol_test threads against radius and the output looks like this: tail radius.log -f | grep "\*\*\*\*\*" ***** Start 1 ==== Pause 1 second <-- not output, just a literal 1 second wait from time.sleep() ***** End 1 ***** Start 2 ==== Pause 1 second <-- not output, just a literal 1 second wait from time.sleep() ***** End 2 .... and so on,

From this I can see that requests handled by rlm_python are being served by a single thread rather than multiple/parallel threads. Does anybody have any experience with rlm_python.py and/or know what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks! Andrew P.S. Latency from my development machine at my desk to Dynamodb in AWS is ~80ms, **which won't be the case for prod**, which is why I was only getting 5-6 requests/second. but I'd still like to be able to handle hundreds of requests/s per production host (obviously the hosts will need to be sized appropriately).