detail sql logging problem

[Alan DeKok]

A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
> a further question on this one - as the detail relay virtual
> server buffered-sql is only supposed to run when the main thread
> isnt busy...and is only supposed to read detail file, log to SQL
> then 'be quiet' why, when it encounters such an issue does the
> main authentication/accounting etc thread not process anything?

  I'm not sure....  I haven't been able to test it myself, so I don't
really know what's going on in that situation.

> I'd have thought that the virtual server would be moaning and
> complaining as much as it wants, but the main core functionality
> would just keep on going...

  I would think so, too.

  Maybe the detail file reader is re-queuing "failed" requests too
quickly, and starving other threads from CPU...

  Alan DeKok.