rlm_ippool slowness

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Mar 3 15:57:08 CET 2011


Chris Hellberg wrote:
> I modified rlm_ippool.c to create a hash key against Calling-Station-Id, which 
> is unique across my NAS.

  Why?

	key = %{md5: %{Calling-Station-Id}}

> However, I find radiusd goes up to 97% CPU when I use this IP allocation method. 
> If I don't use any server-side IP allocation, I get CPU use hovering around 4%. 
> I can't use an integer like Nas-Id to hash against because it's not a unique 
> value on my NAS, hence I had to modify rlm_ipool.c. So I can't easily check 
> whether the problem is in the rest of rlm_ippool.c or in the change of the 
> hashing method that I've done.

  If the problem isn't in the default code, then it's difficult for us
to help.

  Alan DeKok.



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