Load testing tool recommendation

Anders Holm anders.holm at sysadmin.ie
Tue May 13 15:46:47 CEST 2008


Nope, no wireless involved.

Good thought though! :)

//anders

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marinko Tarlac" <mangia81 at gmail.com>
To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 4:01:57 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: Load testing tool recommendation

Wireless could be the problem if you have some wireless links between 
radius server and your NAS.

Alan DeKok wrote:
> Anders Holm wrote:
>   
>> In my tests, radclient has been /slower/ the radtest processes forked from a Perl script.
>>
>> 100 requests using my forking Perl script takes 2.2 seconds to complete.
>> 100 requests using radclient takes ~8x, i.e 16.7+ seconds to complete.
>>     
>
>   You can run "radclient -x" to see what it's doing.  Printing the
> sent/received packets slows it down, but not that much.
>
>   When I run "radclient -q -c 10000", I can easily run 5k packets/s to
> the local machine.  My tests from remote machines are a little slower,
> but not 5 packets/s.
>
>   I'd say there's something wrong in your network, but I'm not sure where.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
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