Radius is running away with the CPU

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Aug 14 18:50:16 CEST 2007


David wrote:
> I have been using freeradius for several years but in the last few months
> have seen a problem with the cpu usage.  TOP almost always shows radius with
>> 100% CPU much of the time it is at 300%.  The load average runs up to 32
> at times as well. This corresponds with the max_servers. I am using a mysql
> database on the same box and it looks to be behaving and queries to it are
> fast. The box is dual 2.8 xeon with 2 GB ram. Anyone have a idea what would
> cause this?

  You're likely HUP'ing the server.  Don't.  HUP doesn't work.

  Alan DeKok.



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