Unresponsive Child Crashing Server 1.1.6

Reynolds, Walter waltr at umich.edu
Fri Sep 28 14:39:16 CEST 2007


I have not seen any answers and strangly enough I did not even find in
the archive so I thought I would resend it.  Thanks.

---
Walt Reynolds
Principal Systems Security Development Engineer
Information Technology Central Services
University of Michigan
(734) 615-9438


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reynolds, Walter
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:37 AM
> To: 'freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org'
> Subject: Unresponsive Child Crashing Server 1.1.6
> 
> 
> I am having a problem where my Freeradius service is crashing several
> times a day.  It will follow an alert in the log with Unresponsive
> Child which I know is usually doe to a slow back end authentication
> method (usually SQL).  Well I am using Kerberos as the back end and
> every time I debug the Kerberos server responds very quickly.  I have
> no programming or database queries to slow things down.  Even stranger
> is that this is a beta server and the load on it is really very light.
> 
> Last three days however have lots of problems:
> 
> Tue Sep 18 00:37:03 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1210108256) for request 487
> Tue Sep 18 07:27:18 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1210108256) for request 672
> Tue Sep 18 10:46:27 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1189128544) for request 173
> Tue Sep 18 12:07:55 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1231087968) for request 127
> Tue Sep 18 12:55:55 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1210108256) for request 72
> Tue Sep 18 14:59:33 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1220598112) for request 86
> Tue Sep 18 15:53:20 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1220598112) for request 102
> Tue Sep 18 17:04:41 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1220598112) for request 104
> Tue Sep 18 21:06:26 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1189128544) for request 305
> Wed Sep 19 07:51:26 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1231087968) for request 502
> Wed Sep 19 12:26:59 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1231087968) for request 80
> Wed Sep 19 14:24:48 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1101056352) for request 76
> Wed Sep 19 16:31:49 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1356966240) for request 282
> Thu Sep 20 12:47:59 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1252067680) for request 368
> Thu Sep 20 16:35:10 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1252067680) for request 336
> Thu Sep 20 20:55:50 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1084229984) for request 256
> Fri Sep 21 01:37:58 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1325496672) for request 503
> Fri Sep 21 10:13:03 2007 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> 1398925664) for request 766
> 
> Running in debug has not really shown anything as it has not shown
that
> error or crashed, so I am unsure of how to proceed.
> 
> Attached is my radiusd.conf:
> =========================
> prefix = /usr/local
> exec_prefix = ${prefix}
> sysconfdir = ${prefix}/etc
> localstatedir = ${prefix}/var
> sbindir = ${exec_prefix}/sbin
> logdir = ${localstatedir}/log/radius
> raddbdir = ${sysconfdir}/raddb
> radacctdir = ${logdir}/radacct
> confdir = ${raddbdir}
> run_dir = ${localstatedir}/run/radiusd
> log_file = ${logdir}/radius.log
> libdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib
> pidfile = ${run_dir}/radiusd.pid
> user = radius   ## Determined by sytem administrator
> group = radius  ## Determined by sytem administrator
> max_request_time = 3 #changed from default of 30
> delete_blocked_requests = no
> cleanup_delay = 3
> max_requests = 750000 # recommends 256 per client
> listen {
>         ipaddr = *
>         port = 1812
>         type = auth
> }
> listen {
>         ipaddr = *
>         port = 1813
>         type = acct
> }
> listen {
>         ipaddr = *
>         port = 1645
>         type = auth
> }
> listen {
>         ipaddr = *
>         port = 1646
>         type = acct
> }
> 
> hostname_lookups = no
> allow_core_dumps = no
> regular_expressions     = yes
> extended_expressions    = yes
> log_stripped_names = no
> log_auth = yes
> log_auth_badpass = no
> log_auth_goodpass = no
> usercollide = no
> lower_user = no
> lower_pass = no
> nospace_user = no
> nospace_pass = no
> checkrad = ${sbindir}/checkrad
> security {
>         max_attributes = 50 #Default of 200 to high
>         reject_delay = 0
>         status_server = no
> }
> proxy_requests  = yes
> $INCLUDE  ${confdir}/proxy.conf
> $INCLUDE  ${confdir}/clients.conf
> snmp    = no
> $INCLUDE  ${confdir}/snmp.conf
> thread pool {
>         start_servers = 32
>         max_servers = 64
>         min_spare_servers = 8
>         max_spare_servers = 32
>         max_requests_per_server = 500
> }
> modules {
>         krb5 {
>                   keytab = /etc/keytab.radius.wallace
>                   service_principal = host
>         }
>         pap {
>                 auto_header = yes
>         }
> $INCLUDE ${confdir}/eap.conf
>         realm suffix {
>                 format = suffix
>                 delimiter = "@"
>                 ignore_default = no
>                 ignore_null = no
>         }
>         preprocess {
>                 huntgroups = ${confdir}/huntgroups
>                 hints = ${confdir}/hints
>                 with_ascend_hack = no
>                 ascend_channels_per_line = 23
>                 with_ntdomain_hack = no
>                 with_specialix_jetstream_hack = no
>                 with_cisco_vsa_hack = no
>         }
>         files {
>                 usersfile = ${confdir}/users
>                 acctusersfile = ${confdir}/acct_users
>                 preproxy_usersfile = ${confdir}/preproxy_users
>                 compat = no
>         }
>         detail {
>                 detailfile = ${radacctdir}/detail-%Y%m%d
>                 detailperm = 0600
>                 suppress {
>                         User-Password
>                 }
>         }
> 
>         acct_unique {
>                 key = "User-Name, Acct-Session-Id, NAS-IP-Address,
> Client-IP-Address, NAS-Port"
>         }
>         radutmp {
>                 filename = ${logdir}/radutmp
>                 username = %{User-Name}
>                 case_sensitive = yes
>                 check_with_nas = no
>                 perm = 0600
>                 callerid = "yes"
>         }
>         attr_filter {
>                 attrsfile = ${confdir}/attrs
>         }
>         counter daily {
>                 filename = ${raddbdir}/db.daily
>                 key = User-Name
>                 count-attribute = Acct-Session-Time
>                 reset = daily
>                 counter-name = Daily-Session-Time
>                 check-name = Max-Daily-Session
>                 allowed-servicetype = Framed-User
>                 cache-size = 5000
>         }
>         always fail {
>                 rcode = fail
>         }
>         always reject {
>                 rcode = reject
>         }
>         always ok {
>                 rcode = ok
>                 simulcount = 0
>                 mpp = no
>         }
>         expr {
>         }
>         digest {
>         }
>         exec {
>                 wait = yes
>                 input_pairs = request
>         }
> }
> instantiate {
>         exec
>         expr
> }
> authorize {
>         preprocess
>         suffix
>         eap
>         files
>         pap
> }
> authenticate {
>         Auth-Type Kerberos {
>                 krb5
>         }
>         Auth-Type PAP {
>                 pap
>         }
>         eap
> }
> preacct {
>         preprocess
>         acct_unique
>         suffix
>         files
> }
> accounting {
>         detail
> }
> session {
> }
> post-auth {
> }
> pre-proxy {
> }
> post-proxy {
>         eap
> }
> =======================
> 
> Users file:
> 
> DEFAULT      FreeRADIUS-Proxied-To == 127.0.0.1
>              User-Name = `%{User-Name}`,
>                 Fall-Through = yes
> 
> 
> DEFAULT         Auth-Type = Kerberos
>                 Fall-Through = 1
> 
> Can anyone give me any help on what to look at or change.  Thanks.
> ---
> Walt Reynolds
> Principal Systems Security Development Engineer
> Information Technology Central Services
> University of Michigan
> (734) 615-9438





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