rlm_perl behavior

[Apostolos Pantsiopoulos]

I updated my server from 2.0.x to 2.1.4
and found out that the rlm_perl config now resides
in the /module directory.

I noticed that the following directives :

	max_clones = 10
         start_clones = 5
         min_spare_clones = 1
         max_spare_clones = 5
         max_request_per_clone = 100

for perl were not present in the file after the compiling.

Are these directives obsolete?

Also, in my perl script I make use of the CLONE function
that according to the wiki is the ideal place to initialize
database handlers. This seemed to work fine for the last 2 years
with 1.x and 2.0.x freeradius. Using the parameters above
and the CLONE function I could see 10 connections to my
mysql server from the moment radiusd was up.

When I migrated to 2.1.x the CLONE function seems to be called only
after the first radius packet arrives (which is not an issue really).
But when I check my connections to the mysql server there seems to be 
only one...!

Was the behavior of rlm_perl altered in any way? I want to have multiple
instances of rlm_perl so that I can connect to different databases 
simultaneously and spread the load.





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Apostolos Pantsiopoulos
Kinetix Tele.com R & D
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