realtime for freeradius

[Alan DeKok]

"Tariq Rashid" <tariq.rashid at uk.easynet.net> wrote:
> consider clusters of proxying freeradius - no database backend - these servers merely proxy radius requests onto other servers (possibly other organisations)... would real-time scheduling improve the "jitter" at this layer which sees large numbers of small sized transactions?

  Probably not.  The server keeps track of time in 1s increments
internally, rather than using 'struct timeval', and more detailed
tracking.  So even if the OS scheduled the process "better", the
internal packet scheduling will probably have high jitter.

  Alan DeKok.
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