Freeradius and memory usage

[Roy Kartadinata]

Alan DeKok wrote:
> Roy Kartadinata wrote:
>> I didn't see any error on error log, it looks clean. But this is what
>> the log looks like when it started to run out of memory the other
>> night: 
>> 
>> Wed Jul 22 22:03:42 2009 : Error: Rejecting request 16183416 due to
>> lack of any response from home server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 1813 Wed
>> Jul 22 22:03:42 2009 : Error: Rejecting request 16183418 due to lack
>> of any response from home server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 1813 Wed Jul 22
>> 22:03:42 2009 : Error: Rejecting request 16183420 due to lack of any
>> response from home server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 1813 Wed Jul 22
>> 22:03:42 2009 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request
>> 16183422, in module detail component pre-proxy
> 
>   Ok... so it's blocked writing to the detail file.
> 
>> Wed Jul 22 22:03:42 2009 : Error: Rejecting request 16183423 due to
>> lack of any response from home server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 1813 Wed
>> Jul 22 22:03:42 2009 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request
>> 16183425, in module  component pre-proxy
> 
>   Module "" means "server core".
> 
>   That's weird...
> 
>   Is the detail file on an NFS mount?  It really shouldn't block
> writing to the detail file unless the underlying file system goes
> away.  
> 

No, the detail file is on a local partition. I think its because of the
size, but for some reason it won't use settings on modules/detail file
where I separated it by hour.



>> And radius eventually died few seconds later. During all these, the
>> memory usage was at around 75% but authentication which we don't
>> proxy continued to work.
> 
>   Because it's going crazy, and dying...
> 
>   Alan DeKok.
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Cheers,

Roy Kartadinata
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