eap authentication and cpu utilization

[Alan DeKok]

Sebastian Heil wrote:
> with my configuration, the freeradius-server can handle about 300 to 400 eap-tls-authentication-request per minute. the cpu load is about 30 - 35 %.

  That's less than 10/s.  I think that the virtual server is running at
a clock rate of about 800MHz, maybe less.

   There's some overhead/delay involved in RADIUS and EAP.  But it
shouldn't drop the performance by 80%.

  Alan DeKok.