FreeRadius msg processing rate

[Sourav Chakraborty]

The machine on which FreeRadius is running had Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 
2.40GHz.It had MySQL server version: 5.0.18 installed on it(without 
clustering).

How will the number of reads/writes per second vary if I use a highend 
machine for hosting the MySQL DB?Is there any performance metrics for the 
same?

rgds
Sourav
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kostas Kalevras" <kkalev at noc.ntua.gr>
To: "FreeRadius developers mailing list" 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: FreeRadius msg processing rate


> O/H Sourav Chakraborty έγραψε:
>> Hello,
>> I have configured FreeRadius server with MySQL.I bombarded the server 
>> with Radius Accounting START and STOP msgs randomly with 178461 msgs in 1 
>> minute(~3000 msgs/sec).I got response back of 23658 msgs.I have noted the 
>> UDP msg stats using (netstat -s).They are as below--
>> 67137 packets received
>> 0 packets to unknown port received
>> 111680 packet receive errors
>> 23710 packets sent
>> Note that the initial counts were all 0.
>> From the stats it seems that --
>> packets received + packet receive errors = ~msgs sent
>> packets sent = ~response msgs received
>> N.B:- the small anomalies in the counts may be due to unprocessed msgs in 
>> the socket buffers.
>> In other words though the msg sending rate was ~3000 msgs/sec,the msg 
>> processing rate was ~400 msgs/sec.
>> Can you comment on this?We need to process over 3000 msgs/sec.So is 
>> FreeRadius with MySQL a right choice?Please suggest.
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Sourav
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> You haven't said anything about the server hardware or about 
> freeradius/mysql configuration. How is the disk behaving with 3000 
> writes/sec? There are numerous configuration/processing choises that can 
> make a big difference in the server throughput, especially in the case of 
> accounting (where you are performing writes and not reads). And as Alan 
> pointed out, 3000 messages/second are way too much. This kind of burst can 
> only happen if you simultaneously reboot a few LNS with thousands of ADSL 
> users and wait for them to all come online in the same time.
>
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